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Give approval for
Answer for the clue "Give approval for ", 5 letters:
allow
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Word definitions for allow in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., allouen , "to commend, praise; approve of, be pleased with; appreciate the value of;" also, "take into account or give credit for," also, in law and philosophy, "recognize, admit as valid" (a privilege, an excuse, a statement, etc.). From late ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 2 (context transitive English) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 3 (context transitive English) To grant (something) ...
Usage examples of allow.
New Riviera was entirely too accommodating to imported species to allow anything out into the wild without official approval, where it would like as not reproduce and thrive like mad.
Kearney had to stand aside to allow the baritone and his accompanist to pass up to the platform.
Mrs Kearney had to stand aside to allow the baritone and his accompanist to pass up to the platform.
It is true, the prices assigned by the assize of Richard were meant as a standard for the accompts of sheriffs and escheators and as considerable profits were allowed to these ministers, we may naturally suppose that the common value of cattle was somewhat higher: yet still, so great a difference between the prices of corn and cattle as that of four to one, compared to the present rates, affords important reflections concerning the very different state of industry and tillage in the two periods.
If, therefore, he were not allowed to think in accord with the love in his will, which is hereditarily implanted in him, that love would remain shut in and never be seen by him.
In its letter the SEC said it would allow Enron to use mark-to-market accounting beginning in January 1992.
Levitt had warned companies not to abuse the practice that allowed them to avoid reporting accounting errors that affect less than a defined percentage of income.
They were reported to be aggressively engaged in guerilla warfare against the enemy in the provinces of Shantung, Hopei, Shansi and north Kiangsu, although direct evidence was lacking because no foreigner accredited to Chungking was allowed to visit the area north of the quarantine line.
It also prefers the savor of those who have allowed their receptor planes to tarnish with succulent trace elements, spewed up by the hot accretion disk below.
The operation consists in dividing the hymen by a crucial incision, thus allowing the accumulated fluid to be discharged, after which the vagina is cleansed by syringing it with warm water.
The acetylcholine formed by the nerve cannot be allowed to remain in being for long, because there would be no repolarization while it is present.
It was wider than an urban walkway, so she could easily have gone upright, but her acrophobia refused to allow her to let go with her hands.
Bono, I value your advice very highly, and still more highly the kindly feelings which prompt you, but you must allow me to follow my own opinion in this case.
This was to allow control rooms of affiliate stations which had not been broadcasting the network program to interrupt their local programming and take the special bulletin.
Circumnutation was observed in the above specified cases, either by means of extremely fine filaments of glass affixed to the radicles in the manner previously described, or by their being allowed to grow downwards over inclined smoked glassplates, on which they left their tracks.