单词 | rubber-stamp |
释义 | rubber-stampv. 1. transitive. To mark with the imprint of a rubber stamp; to print with a rubber stamp. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > imprint [verb (transitive)] > with stamp or device printa1387 strike1551 stamp1564 incuse1864 date-stamp1893 rubber-stamp1893 1893 Amer. Jrnl. Photogr. 14 253 Keep steadily on the way of life and character, which is one of the hand camera's strongest directions of work, and the future will bless you equally with those who portray nature rubber-stamped with their own originality or eccentricity. 1894 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 33 138/1 I believe the grocer said it came from California, or at least the sections were so rubber-stamped. 1922 Hotel World 13 May 2 No hotel would rubber-stamp its stationery. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iv. 113 Abdul went to start rubber-stamping the soles of smuggled sandals. 1973 Radio Times 50th Anniv. Souvenir 66/1 I'd written a fan letter to Bing Crosby... I received a photo of him back—with his autograph rubber-stamped across it. 1997 L. Yablonsky Story of Junk 45 The name ‘Toilet’ was rubber-stamped on the glassine bag. 2. transitive. figurative. To endorse or approve uncritically; to pass routinely or automatically. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > ratification or confirmation > confirm or ratify [verb (transitive)] > endorse or approve uncritically rubber-stamp1911 1911 R. S. Childs Short-ballot Princ. iii. 24 Did the citizens vote without stopping to read the ballot, without knowing even the names of all the offices that were to be filled, simply rubber-stamping, without scrutiny, the ready-made tickets of the politicians? 1935 Ann. Reg. 1934 304 Moreover the Democrats in Congress were completely at one with the Republicans..in their dislike at appearing merely to ‘rubber-stamp’ measures drafted by the President. 1978 S. Brill Teamsters i. 15 The current trustees..had rubber-stamped loans to mob fronts. 2005 P. R. Keefe Chatter vi. 155 If you have a committee like the House or Senate that essentially rubber stamps what intelligence agencies want, then we're effectively back to where we were in the 1960s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1893 |
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