✅ Formal approval ✍️ A signature

indorsement

7.6

A written signature or note showing approval on a document like a check

noun
/ɪnˈdɔrsmənt/

Archaic

: endoso

The check requires an indorsement before it can be cashed.

Examples

A check is invalid without the proper indorsement on the back.
Please provide your indorsement on the contract.
Her political indorsement helped the candidate gain trust among undecided voters.
The company offered him a lucrative contract for the indorsement of their products.
A check is invalid without the proper indorsement on the back.
Please provide your indorsement on the contract to complete the process.
The check requires an indorsement before it can be cashed at the bank.

Synonyms

endorsement

vsindorsement

Specialized

33 5.5

A signature on a document like a check that lets someone deposit or cash it

expresses approval rather than focusing on legal validity

endorsement in blank

vsindorsement

Formal

9.9

A signature that does not name a person, so anyone who holds a check or note can cash it

is a general signature not limited to bearer payment

blank endorsement

vsindorsement

Specialized

7.7

A signature on the back of a check that lets anyone holding it cash or deposit it

is a broad approval or signature not tied to a named payee

Antonyms

rejection

180 3.0

Not being accepted by people or a group

disapproval

45 3.0

A feeling that shows you do not agree with someone or what they do

Surface Forms

indorsement singular

indorsements plural

Morphology

indorsement = endorse (transparent) = endorse + ment

A direct nominalization from 'endorse' using '-ment', meaning 'the act or instrument of endorsing', which is easily inferred from the base verb.

Etymology

Indorsement comes from the parts in- and dorsum, meaning 'back', and is the same root as endorse because people signed the back of a check or paper. So an indorsement is the signature or written note on a document that makes it valid or shows approval.