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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
approved
adjective
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approved school
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
legislation
▪ On May 24 the Bundestag approved legislation to this effect.
▪ Congress on Oct. 1 approved legislation giving the Securities and Exchange Commission extensive new powers to regulate markets and combat fraud.
▪ At the close of its session on May 11 the Great Hural approved legislation which legally entrenched the multiparty system.
▪ Also on Oct. 15 the Sejm approved legislation regulating television and broadcasting and allowing for commercial stations.
plan
▪ The transport committee yesterday approved plans to build another boat.
▪ Yesterday's meeting of the borough planning applications sub-committee approved plans for the 48 hectare golf course subject to certain legally binding conditions.
▪ Writing specifications based on the accepted and approved plans are an essential part of the designer's work.
▪ The district council's planning committee last night approved plans for the upgrading of land in Leeholme, near Coundon.
school
▪ It wasn't really that different from the approved school.
▪ Several in both groups were lesbian, some because they had formed such relationships in approved school or Borstal.
▪ The approved school was bloody disgusting.
▪ Finally he was sent to an approved school and then he disappeared from the district.
▪ About three years ago I was reading a newspaper and there was this big article about my approved school.
▪ Child care authorities were also involved in running remand homes and approved schools.
▪ Borstal institutions, remand homes and approved schools filled by the products of an unhappy home life.
▪ When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns.
version
▪ Rule 2 A later approved version of the module exists.
▪ A new issue number is also added to signify an approved version; e.g. version 01.02C is approved as 01.02.
▪ It is recommended but not essential that the version supplied for the Product package be an approved version.
▪ It is recommended that this is an approved version, although a development version may be used if necessary.
▪ To achieve this a user can reference the next approved version of a module in anticipation of that module's approval.
▪ Only development version number allowed An approved version number has been entered at the new package version or new module version prompt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, applications may be made by the nearest relative or an approved social worker and two medical recommendations are required.
▪ Finally he was sent to an approved school and then he disappeared from the district.
▪ The 1983 Mental Health Act stipulated that only approved social workers should be allowed to deal with mental health cases.
▪ The concession will not therefore normally apply to rights already granted under an approved employee share scheme.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Approved

Approve \Ap*prove"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Approved; p. pr. & vb. n. Approving.] [OE. aproven, appreven, to prove, OF. aprover, F. approuver, to approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, prove. See Prove, and cf. Approbate.]

  1. To show to be real or true; to prove. [Obs.]

    Wouldst thou approve thy constancy? Approve First thy obedience.
    --Milton.

  2. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.

    Opportunities to approve . . . worth.
    --Emerson.

    He had approved himself a great warrior.
    --Macaulay.

    'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
    --Byron.

    His account . . . approves him a man of thought.
    --Parkman.

  3. To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.

  4. To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.

  5. To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.

    The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
    --Rogers.

    Note: This word, when it signifies to be pleased with, to think favorably (of), is often followed by of.

    They had not approved of the deposition of James.
    --Macaulay.

    They approved of the political institutions.
    --W. Black.

Wiktionary
approved

  1. Having received approval. v

  2. (en-past of: approve)

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WordNet
approved

  1. adj. established by authority; given authoritative approval; "a list of approved candidates" [syn: sanctioned]

  2. generally or especially officially judged acceptable or satisfactory; "an approved method"; "work on the approved project went ahead on schedule" [ant: disapproved]

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Approved (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker album)

Approved is the second EP released by Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker. Music videos were released for tracks "Yo Hello Hoorray (Everyday)" and "Damini".

Approved

Approved refers to approval.

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Usage examples of "approved".

The princess approved of this advice, and a few days later she called for Emilie and Armelline, and brought them to her palace, where I awaited them with the cardinal, the prince, and the Duchess of Fiano.

His feet dangled over the debris trench which circled the perimeter of the table, and which the suit assured him was reeking in the manner approved by Affronter gourmets.

A second article was approved by the committee alleging perjury in the Jones deposition with a lone Republican defecting.

Thinking that I might wish to settle in France, he left me at his departure, together with the papers establishing my identity, a letter promising, if he approved of my choice, 150,000 livres per annum from the day I was married.

According to the ancient Analects, which guided the practitioners of Confucianism, ginger was such an important food that Confucius approved of its use even during periods of fasting or sacrificial worship, when the consumption of all other pungent or malodorous foods was prohibited.

Tallien and Deputy Barras, my petition has been approved, the seals removed from my belongings on Rue Saint-Dominique.

He faced unwillingly the whole frightening extent of the plundering of the brewery and approved of the appointment of Margaret Morden as captain of the lifeboat to save the wreck.

Inhalations, administered by means of the most approved apparatus, are employed with advantage in many obstinate lung, bronchial, and throat affections.

Petitions were already under way, which, when approved, would entitle Marga and Stephan Bronski to take the name of their stepfather Ehlers.

A week or two later, the hierarchy of Felding-Roth was cheered by news from France that the drug Montayne had been approved for manufacture and sale in that country.

I believe, while Montayne had been approved by FDA, it had not yet gone on sale.

NSA notified its representative at FBI headquarters that it had approved the passage of the information to the criminal agents.

When even the Count presently approved of outcrossing, and had let his own daughter choose a foreigner for her mate, it was the fashionable thing.

The ponderous volumes of the Codes and Pandects would furnish ample materials for a minute inquiry into the system of provincial government, as in the space of six centuries it was approved by the wisdom of the Roman statesmen and lawyers.

It might have been possible for soldiers and diplomats to pose as innocents until the middle of the 1960s, but after that time, and especially after the My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968, when serving veterans reported to their superior officers a number of major atrocities, nobody could reasonably claim to have been uninformed and of those who could, the least believable would be those who - far from the confusion of battle - read and discussed and approved the panoptic reports of the war that were delivered to Washington.