What is "initialed"

Usage examples of "initialed".

It was the lair of an efficient executive, scores of papers in separate piles on the desk, an easel against the wall holding watercolor sketches, some boldly initialed, others left untouched, obviously unacceptable.

Some of the memos were signed or initialed by former President Reagan and his national security advisors.

One, a document initialed by the President, authorized a trip to Beijing (North had spelled it Peking) and directed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to ask the Chinese to provide shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles for the Nicaraguan Resistance.

I couldn't help but notice that a good number of the pages had either been signed or initialed by the President," the younger officer said, his hands now thrust deeply in his pockets to ward off the cold.

They’d lost Beldona, the second pilot and archeologist, on the third world in the same accident that had injured Castor: a planet initialed G.

With it also was a four-line report from the chemists at the testing laboratory, branding the product unsatisfactory, and a carbon of the letter written to Frank Wade, signed by Forbes Adams and initialed by his secretary.

Each report required her approval and had to be initialed to show that the Prelate herself had certified the expenses.

She jammed the pen in the ink bottle, sighed again, and initialed the bottom of the page.

Though some detectives initialed cartridge cases just as some medical examiners initialed bullets recovered from bodies, the firearms examiners discouraged the practice.

Like me, he always initialed the plastic bag and left the evidence inside untouched.

Reaching across his desk, he picked up the pile of expense reports in front of him and, without bothering to check the figures, initialed all of them in the appropriate box.