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approvable

approvable

1 4.1
Good enough for people in charge to accept
  • adjective
  • /əˈpruːvəbl/
translation icon : aprobable
  • See 21 C.F.R. 314.120(a) (FDA "not approvable letter").
  • FDA approvable
  • approvable letter

Examples

  • The "approvable letter" is a far better response than a non-approvable letter that is the true kiss of death, but the delays come at a time when the company is going to have to go into cash survival mode.

    Blog text (21)
  • NRDC was concerned that states would abuse any conditional approval policy to drag out the date by which they must submit an approvable SIP attainment demonstration for years.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Family purchases are now approvable via Face ID.

  • But those reasons might be reasons that only speak to my perspective, for example, my egoistic interests, and might not be approvable by others, given their perspective.

    Academic text (2018)
  • The company briefly enjoyed a "media openness" in the few weeks between the FDA panel backing date and the delay from the FDA "approvable letter."

    Blog text (21)
  • Professor Nussbaum's affidavit treats him as authority for her claim that Plato regarded consensual non-commercial homosexual sex acts as acceptable and even highly approvable.

    Academic text (1994)
  • -- (n68.) See 21 C.F.R. 312.84(c) (2008) (FDA not approvable for marketing letter); see also Palumbo & Mullins, supra note 10, at 429.

    Academic text (2009)
  • The committee reviewed the proposal and deemed it approvable after a few adjustments.

  • Her changes to the design made the project more approvable by the board.

  • After several revisions, the application was finally considered approvable by the authorities.

Synonyms

acceptable
vsapprovable
477 2.5

Good enough for a particular use or standard

is judged likely to receive formal consent rather than just meeting standards
allowable
vsapprovable
13 2.7

Rules or laws permit it

is about being fit for consideration rather than simply following rules
sanctionable
vsapprovable
  • Formal
7.2

Suitable for official approval by an authority

is judged suitable generally rather than needing formal endorsement from authorities

How Acceptable

approved
  • Formal
1.5
acceptable
477 2.5
approvable
1 4.1
questionable
176 3.9
unacceptable
256 3.2

Surface Forms

approvable positive

Morphology

approvable = approve (transparent) = approve + able

Formed by the productive suffix '-able' added to the verb 'approve' (orthographic -e deletion is regular), yielding the meaning 'able to be approved'.

Etymology

Approvable comes from the common verb approve ('to agree that something is good') and the ending -able ('can be done'). So approvable means 'can be approved', something that could get a thumbs-up or official agreement.