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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ratify
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ratify a treaty (=make it official by signing it or accepting it)
▪ The Government cannot ratify the treaty without Parliament’s consent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ President Corazon Aquino had appealed to the Senate to ratify the agreement.
convention
▪ This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
▪ Enough countries ratified the Convention to bring it into force.
▪ But there has been pressure from the Department of the Environment to ratify the convention.
▪ The meeting was an attempt to ratify the 1997 Kyoto convention on reducing greenhouse gases.
country
▪ Their purpose is to encourage countries to ratify the Kyoto protocol on reducing carbon emissions.
▪ Signed by 161 countries and ratified by 68&038;.
▪ The parliaments of both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of February 1991.
▪ The Covenant is designed to guarantee civil and political rights to persons within each country that ratifies it.
▪ It will come into being once 60 countries ratify their leaders' decision to join.
▪ It came into force in March 1983 after two thirds of the signing countries had ratified it.
▪ Enough countries ratified the Convention to bring it into force.
▪ When Maastricht was agreed 11 months ago, all countries pledged to ratify it before the end of this year.
decision
▪ It will come into being once 60 countries ratify their leaders' decision to join.
▪ Congress voted on Nov. 26 by 78 votes to 24 to ratify the decision.
▪ The councillors ratified the decision taken earlier by the education committee.
▪ And that will cause uproar tonight when the general committee gather to ratify the decision.
government
▪ But the state's Labor government refused to ratify the new law for nine months.
▪ Mr Hurd said the amendment would have no effect and that the Government would ratify the treaty anyway.
▪ But Mr Hurd said that the amendment would have no effect and that the Government would ratify the treaty anyway.
maastricht
▪ This could, of course, occur even if the Member States failed to ratify the Maastricht Treaty.
▪ In a letter he told him not to interfere in Britain's moves to ratify the Maastricht Treaty.
▪ It does not ratify the Maastricht Treaty and any political discussion about whether it should or not is out of order.
protocol
▪ Their purpose is to encourage countries to ratify the Kyoto protocol on reducing carbon emissions.
▪ Of the total of fourteen states now party to the Convention, half have ratified the Protocol.
senate
▪ President Corazon Aquino had appealed to the Senate to ratify the agreement.
▪ The Senate ratified the treaty in 1854.
▪ The Senate must ratify his reappointment.
▪ Next week he will appeal to the Senate to ratify a global treaty to ban chemical weapons.
state
▪ This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
▪ Constitutional amendments go from Congress directly to state legislatures; 38 states must ratify them.
▪ It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953.
▪ Both houses must approve by two-thirds margins, and 38 state legislatures must ratify such fundamental changes.
▪ Both houses must pass an amendment by a two-thirds margin and three-fourths of the states then must ratify it.
▪ These debates lend credence to the view that the southern states would not have ratified the Constitution without the proslavery compromises.
treaty
▪ We ratified the treaty in 1951 but under our constitution this gives no right of action in our domestic courts.
▪ The Senate ratified the treaty in 1854.
▪ We hope that the republics will be willing to ratify the treaty and implement its terms.
▪ In a letter he told him not to interfere in Britain's moves to ratify the Maastricht Treaty.
▪ Next week he will appeal to the Senate to ratify a global treaty to ban chemical weapons.
▪ It does not ratify the Maastricht Treaty and any political discussion about whether it should or not is out of order.
▪ Any state attempting to join later would have to ratify the treaty first-usually a long process.
■ VERB
refuse
▪ But the state's Labor government refused to ratify the new law for nine months.
▪ If we refuse to ratify, some governments will use our refusal as an excuse to keep their chemical weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A 1961 treaty ratified by 125 nations outlawed the production of cocaine.
▪ Congress failed to ratify the treaty until two years later.
▪ The US Senate refused to ratify the agreement on weapons reduction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because his ennoblement could not be ratified until the Dragon Throne was formally occupied, Alexei was not permitted to vote.
▪ But the administration faces two high hurdles in efforts to get the treaty ratified.
▪ Kharin's three-and-a-half-year contract with Chelsea is expected to be ratified within the next week, when he receives a work permit.
▪ Massachusetts ratified by 187 against 168.
▪ The decision still has to be ratified by the Finance and Management Services Committee.
▪ We ratified the treaty in 1951 but under our constitution this gives no right of action in our domestic courts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ratify

Ratify \Rat"i*fy\ (r[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ratified (r[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Ratifying (r[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]`[i^]ng).] [F. ratifier, fr. L. ratus fixed by calculation, firm, valid + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Rate, n., and -fy.] To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination.

It is impossible for the divine power to set a seal to a lie by ratifying an imposture with such a miracle.
--South.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ratify

mid-14c., from Old French ratifier (13c.), from Medieval Latin ratificare "confirm, approve," literally "fix by reckoning," from Latin ratus "fixed by calculation; determined; approved; certain, sure; valid" (past participle adjective from reri "to reckon, think;" see reason (v.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Related: Ratified; ratifying.

Wiktionary
ratify

vb. (context transitive English) To give formal consent to; make officially valid.

WordNet
ratify

  1. v. approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?" [syn: sign]

  2. [also: ratified]

Usage examples of "ratify".

They were confirmed in this opinion, when they found that a bill, ratifying the attainder of Somerset and his accomplices, was also rejected by the commons, though it had passed the upper house.

Constantinople, and to second the operations of the chagan, with whom the Persian king had ratified a treaty of alliance and partition.

But What is equivalent to a demonstration that Glamorgan was conscious that he had no powers to conclude a treaty on these terms, or without consulting the lord lieutenant, and did not even expect that the king would ratify the articles, is the defeasance which he gave to the Irish council at the time of signing the treaty.

State governments were promptly organized under these organic laws, Legislatures were elected, and the Fourteenth Amendment ratified in each of the States with as hearty a unanimity as in the preceding winter it has been rejected by the same communities.

May, should be discussed in the senate, when the wars which are now impending are over, and the commonwealth has been restored to tranquillity: and that Appius Claudius should now prepare to take notice that an account is to be rendered by him of the comitia which he himself held for electing decemvirs, whether they were elected for one year, or until the laws which were wanting were ratified.

The room glanced at Hoyt again, to ratify the fact that Boo McGuire had indeed gotten off a funny line.

Fourteenth Amendment, action on the subject was held to be completed when the State officially announced it, and New York was numbered among the States which had ratified the Amendment.

States they were in addition ratified and confirmed, if the facts have been correctly reported, by a genuine plebiscitum, or direct vote of the people.

All his decrees were formally ratified by his Derg, a council made up of nobles and great rases and chieftains.

Hardy it ratified, at the same term, the doctrine of freedom of contract.

Not only did all amendments have to be ratified by each of the 13 States, but all important legislation needed the approval of 9 States.

Congress could, for example, negotiate treaties with foreign powers, but all treaties had to be ratified by the several States.

States, such an act relative to this great object, as when unanimously ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress, effectually to provide for the same.

Furthermore, while the Articles specified that no amendments should be effective until approved by the legislatures of all the States, the Philadelphia Convention suggested that the new Constitution should supplant the Articles of Confederation when ratified by conventions in nine States.

Pennsylvania ratified on December 12, 1787, by a vote of 46 to 23, a vote scarcely indicative of the struggle which had taken place in that State.