approval rating
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- noun
- /əˈpruːvəl ˈreɪtɪŋ/
- Literature
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índice de aprobación
- No wonder Congress' approval rating is currently at 11 percent.
- high approval rating
- low approval rating
- approval rating of X percent
Look no further than JD Vance's personal approval ratings.
- Look no further than JD Vance's personal approval ratings.
- Presidents this far into their presidential first term and let's just say there's only been one president that has had a lower approval ratings and that was Reagan.
- People love it more than than the Amazon's approval ratings are higher than Congress.
- He's in denial about his condition in this race and his approval rating, his polls, you name it.
Examples
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A New York Times poll in 1992 gave Congress a 14 percent approval rating.
Academic text (2000) -
Your approval rating has dropped from the highest of almost any leader in this country to among the lowest.
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Our approval rating is up five points today.
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Your guy has a 48% approval rating.
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Your approval ratings climbed 9 points.
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President Whitmore's approval ratings have slipped below 40%.
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The Red Hook center has received a 94 percent approval rating in resident surveys.
Academic text (2011) -
As of the middle of this year, he continued to command high approval ratings of between 59 and 63 percent.
Academic text (2001) -
According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, the president’s approval rating is at 44%.
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The latest poll shows that the president's approval rating has increased significantly after the new policy announcement.
Synonyms
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2.6
A score that shows how good something like a film or restaurant is
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2.0
Being liked or admired by many people
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1.0
A sign that someone thinks a person or thing is good
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4.1
The degree to which people view something positively
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward composition of 'approval' (a positive judgment) and 'rating' (a measured score), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a measured level or percentage of approval. This is a common, cross-linguistic noun-noun compound pattern (often used in polling contexts), making the meaning readily predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Approval rating comes from the two words approval, meaning saying 'yes', and rating, meaning a score people give; imagine many people holding up number cards or thumbs-up signs and you count them to get a 'percentage'. So, approval rating means the share or 'percentage' of people who 'support' someone.