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ap·proved

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. approved, sanctionedadjective

    established by authority; given authoritative approval

    "a list of approved candidates"

Wiktionary

  1. approvedadjective

    Describing something that has received approval.

ChatGPT

  1. approved

    Approved refers to something that has been officially accepted or authorized. This could involve a variety of contexts, including a plan, document, product, or even a person. An approval signifies that it has been reviewed and found to meet established standards, regulations or criteria.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Approved

    of Approve

Editors Contribution

  1. approvedverb

    Verb form of the word approve.

    They approved the expenditure responsibly.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 20, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'approved' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2612

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'approved' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3565

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of approved in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of approved in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of approved in a Sentence

  1. Edgar Watson Howe:

    The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.

  2. Burton:

    Every man thinks with himself, I am well, I am wise, and laughs at others; and ?tis a general fault amongst them all, that which our forefathers approved?diet, apparel, humours, customs, manners?we deride and reject in our time as absurd.

  3. Boeing Co:

    We have applied for and received a license to assess the current commercial passenger airplane needs of U.S. Government-approved Iranian airlines, the license permits us to engage approved airlines to determine their actual fleet requirements.

  4. Hans Lammers:

    From a functional point of view it is no different from systems approved for other manufacturers, at this point there are no next steps. The system was approved. If NHTSA comes up with a reason why it is not in line with type approval requirements we would start looking into that.

  5. Mark Twain:

    I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.

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