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sanction
[ sangk-shuhn ]
noun
- authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
Synonyms: authorization
Antonyms: prohibition, interdiction
- something that serves to support an action, condition, etc.
- something that gives binding force, as to an oath, rule of conduct, etc.
- Law.
- a provision of a law enacting a penalty for disobedience or a reward for obedience.
- the penalty or reward.
- International Law. action by one or more states toward another state calculated to force it to comply with legal obligations.
sanction
/ ˈsæŋkʃən /
noun
- final permission; authorization
- aid or encouragement
- something, such as an ethical principle, that imparts binding force to a rule, oath, etc
- the penalty laid down in a law for contravention of its provisions
- often plural a coercive measure, esp one taken by one or more states against another guilty of violating international law
verb
- to give authority to; permit
- to make authorized; confirm
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Derived Forms
- ˈsanctioner, noun
- ˈsanctionless, adjective
- ˈsanctionable, adjective
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Other Words From
- sanc·tion·a·ble adjective
- sanc·tion·a·tive adjective
- sanc·tion·er noun
- sanc·tion·less adjective
- non·sanc·tion noun
- re·sanc·tion verb (used with object)
- su·per·sanc·tion verb (used with object) noun
- un·sanc·tion·a·ble adjective
- un·sanc·tion·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sanction1
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Example Sentences
Cameron has already begun securing support in Parliament for a vote that would sanction attacks in the coming days.
“Russia is bigger than all of our previous sanction targets put together,” he said.
As a result of these findings, Brown University is imposing the following sanction: Suspension until Fall 2014.
If the U.S. moves to sanction Putin and his pals next week, Moscow will definitely strike back.
Wednesday afternoon, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will mark up legislation to give aid to Ukraine and sanction Russia.
Indeed, this symbol is no less appropriate than the one just considered, and has equally the sanction of Scripture.
He was desired by the speaker to withdraw, as no affirmation could be made without the sanction of the house.
They became engaged, and Gibbon implored her to marry him without waiting for the sanction of his father.
Play-writers heralded it on the stage, bestowing upon it the passport of literary sanction.
In the following year it gave its sanction to a similar proposal by the Bradford Board of Guardians.
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