sanctioned
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈsæŋkʃənd/
- Formal
- The charity event received sanctioned approval from the local government.
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- Basically it is employer LED and employer sanctioned gaslighting.
- The British hoped that this new type of repression, often state sanctioned, would stop IRA attacks.
- I couldn't have done the movie, my first movie, if it was a sanctioned union movie.
- From early days of tribal warfare to modern days of of state sanctioned global warfare.
- What is now open and easy and sanctioned by the courts was then closed and difficult.
- Angela Davis's naming routine cavity searches as state sanctioned sexual assault is momentous.
- Occupied space challenges the constraints of municipal authority and state sanctioned control of power over housing, economy, education.
- We ask people to turn the other way or saying that's one bad apple when sanctioned abuse happens, rather than saying Nah, maybe it's a bad tree.
- They had five sanctioned boxing matches and they had four, I believe, celebrity matches.
- So dude, it was this more sanctioned?
Examples
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Occupied space challenges the constraints of municipal authority and state sanctioned control of power over housing, economy, education.
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What is now open and easy and sanctioned by the courts was then closed and difficult.
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This one is eatforhealth.gov government sanctioned website.
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The outcast and sanctioned leaders side by side, reviewing troops.
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The British hoped that this new type of repression, often state sanctioned, would stop IRA attacks.
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They had five sanctioned boxing matches and they had four, I believe, celebrity matches.
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The study was conducted under sanctioned guidelines to ensure accuracy.
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After several reviews, the proposal was finally sanctioned by the committee.
Synonyms
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2.3
Approved by a person or group in charge
153
3.5
Allowed by an official group to do a certain job
136
1.5
Officially accepted by a person or group in charge
123
3.6
Having official permission to do something
55
3.5
Known and officially accepted as important or respected
23
4.4
Officially recognized as meeting standards to do a job
2
5.5
Officially approved so it has legal force
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3.4
Official permission from a government or other authority to do a job, for example as an electrician
Antonyms
How Official
- Formal
2
5.5
123
3.6
- Formal
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4.1
- Formal
136
1.5
64
1.3
72
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sanctioned comes from the Latin roots sanctus ('holy') and sanctio ('an official order'), and is like the word sanctuary. So, if something is sanctioned, it has been officially approved by the people in charge.