endorse
verb /ɪnˈdɔːs/
/ɪnˈdɔːrs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they endorse | /ɪnˈdɔːs/ /ɪnˈdɔːrs/ |
| he / she / it endorses | /ɪnˈdɔːsɪz/ /ɪnˈdɔːrsɪz/ |
| past simple endorsed | /ɪnˈdɔːst/ /ɪnˈdɔːrst/ |
| past participle endorsed | /ɪnˈdɔːst/ /ɪnˈdɔːrst/ |
| -ing form endorsing | /ɪnˈdɔːsɪŋ/ /ɪnˈdɔːrsɪŋ/ |
- endorse something to say publicly that you support a person, statement or course of action
- I wholeheartedly endorse his remarks.
- Members of all parties endorsed a ban on land mines.
Extra Examples- The government has broadly endorsed the research paper.
- The newspaper has formally endorsed the Democratic candidate.
- The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- enthusiastically
- heartily
- strongly
- …
- fail to
- refuse to
- endorse something to say in an advertisement that you use and like a particular product so that other people will want to buy it
- I wonder how many celebrities actually use the products they endorse.
- [usually passive] (British English) to put details of a driving offence on somebody’s driving record
- have something/be endorsed You risk having your licence endorsed.
- endorse something to write your name on the back of a cheque so that it can be paid into a bank account
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘write on the back of’; formerly also as indorse): from medieval Latin indorsare, from Latin in- ‘in, on’ + dorsum ‘back’.