Crossword clues for endorsement
endorsement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indorsement \In*dorse"ment\, n. [From Indorse; cf. Endorsement.] [Written also endorsement.]
The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.
That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred.
--Story. Byles. Burrill.-
Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct.
Blank indorsement. See under Blank.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from endorse + -ment. Figurative use from 1630s. Earlier endosement (early 15c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or quality of endorse 2 An amendment or added notation to an insurance contract or other official document (such as a driving licence). 3 (context aviation English) An instructor's signed acknowledgement of time practising specific flying skills. 4 (context education certification English) Permission to carry out a specific skill or application in a field in which the practitioner already has a general licence. 5 Sponsorship, in means of money, by a company, business or enterprise. 6 Support from an important, renowned figure of a media (celebrity, politics, sports, etc.), to get back up.
WordNet
n. a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books); "the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book" [syn: indorsement, blurb]
a speech seconding a motion; "do I hear a second?" [syn: second, secondment, indorsement]
formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, indorsement, warrant, imprimatur]
a signature that validates something; "the cashier would not cash the check without an endorsement" [syn: indorsement]
the act of endorsing; "a star athlete can make a lot of money from endorsements" [syn: indorsement]
Wikipedia
Endorsement (alternatively spelt "indorsement") may refer to:
- a testimonial, a written or spoken statement endorsing, promoting or advertising a product.
- Political endorsement, the action of publicly declaring one's personal or group's support of a candidate for election to political office or for one or more of their policies
- a form added to an insurance policy to modify its terms
- a signature on a negotiable instrument such as a check (cheque), indicating a person's intent to become a party to the instrument
- Blank endorsement, a signature given without indicating the instrument's payee
- a note added to a driver's license, often to record a traffic offense
Usage examples of "endorsement".
When Jefferson learned that Adams was again to collaborate with Franklin at Paris, he was incredulous and in a coded letter to Madison offered a private view of Adams that was anything but an unqualified endorsement.
While Jefferson would have much to say about the Constitution and the need for a bill of rights in subsequent private correspondence with Madison, he made no public statement for the time being, whereas Adams sent off a strong endorsement to John Jay that was to be widely quoted at home.
Saul Steinmetz had outlined what must be done, now he was introducing other speakers to give the Grand Design their personal endorsements.
These letters are taken at random from among hundreds of similar ones, received from former patients of ours, residing in all parts of the United States and Canada, and if it would add anything to the endorsement in the way of giving greater confidence in our ability to treat successfully the malady under consideration, we could multiply the letters which we here introduce many times over.
You yourselffrom the endorsement of my cheque for fifty pounds that you wheedled me into giving you for some tomfool guild.
You yourself-from the endorsement of my cheque for fifty pounds that you wheedled me into giving you for some tomfool guild.
WMD programs, obstruction of the inspections, and human rights abuses, Albright got a strong endorsement for a hard line on Iraq from all of the countries she visited.
In Minnesota the Populists, with a ticket headed by the veteran Donnelly, ran a poor third in the state election, and the entire Harrison electoral ticket was victorious in spite of the endorsement of four Populist candidates by the Democrats.
Not to mention product endorsements and book deals and merchandising rights.
I wondered how she had coped with the closed endorsement on the back of the certified check, since certified checks are always on paper guaranteed nonerasable.
Relying on religious sentiments in the capital, and ignoring the objections of conservatives on the Council, such as Gardiner and Wriothesley, the Protector and the Archbishop took steps very early in the reign to establish the Protestant faith as the official religion in England, and at Easter Compline was sung in English in the Chapel Royal to signify the King's endorsement of their policies.
Armed with the latest intelligence about Iraq's WMD programs, obstruction of the inspections, and human rights abuses, Albright got a strong endorsement for a hard line on Iraq from all of the countries she visited.
I looked down at the new slave, whom I had decided to call 'Talena', which slave name was also entered on her papers, in the first endorsement, as her first slave name pertinent to these papers, and by means of which she could always be referred to in courts of law as, say, the slave who on such and such a date was known by the name 'Talena.
Alford was in the race for govenor, too, and he couldn’t win either, because the racists had a far more fervent champion in Justice Jim Johnson, who had risen from humble roots in Crossett, in southeast Arkansas, to the state supreme court on rhetoric that won the endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan in the governor’s race.
She finished the final corrections and captain's endorsements to Ravicz's report, cross-referenced her own report to Captain Tankersley's, routed copies of all relevant documents to Admiral Sarnow, Admiral Parks, and Third Space Lord Danvers, with yet another copy to the attention of Nike's builders and one for the inspectors aboard Hephaestus, then dashed her signature with the electronic stylus and pressed her thumb to the scan panel with a sigh of relief.