Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "rubber-stamp".
He is rubber-stamped on hands, forehead, and ass, deloused, poked, palpated, named, numbered, consigned, invoiced, misrouted, detained, ignored.
The builders who slapped together the lousy houses, the developers who sold them and the inspectors who rubber-stamped them had little to worry about from Dade prosecutors, or anyone else.
Officials conveniently chose to ignore the experts, and continued to rubber-stamp every shopping mall that came up on the drawing board.
As a quid pro quo, the senator, who was on the Armed Forces Appropriations Committee, had rubber-stamped Richardson's request that Fort Howard be mothballed and sold off to private enterprise.
But he found no rubber-stamp kit and no stamp pad, and one was used for the message on the paper.
Doughton,* a key DuPont ally, quickly rubber-stamped the secret Treasury bill and sent it sailing through Congress to the President.