approve¹ /ə-proovˈ/

1. To think well of, to be pleased with
2. To commend
3. To confirm, sanction or ratify
4. To show, demonstrate (esp reflexive; obsolete)
5. To test (Shakespeare)
6. To convict (Shakespeare)

To judge favourably, to be pleased (with of)

approvˈable adjective

Deserving approval

approvˈal or (archaic) approvˈance noun

1. Favourable judgement
2. Commendation
3. An act of approving

approvˈer noun

1. A person who approves
2. An accomplice in crime admitted to give evidence against a prisoner, an informer (Eng law; historical)

approvˈing adjective

approvˈingly adverb

approved school noun

(between 1933 (Scotland 1937) and 1969) a state boarding school for young people who had broken the law or who were pronounced to be in need of care and protection

seal (or stamp) of approval

Formal commendation or ratification

on approval (or informal on appro /apˈrō/)

1. Subject to approval
2. Without obligation to buy

approve² /ə-proovˈ/ (law)

To turn to one's profit, increase the value of (orig and esp common land)

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