approvable

[uh-proo-vuh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being approved.

2. worthy of being approved; commendable.

Other Word Forms

• approvability noun
• approvably adverb
• unapprovable adjective
• unapprovably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of approvable¹

1400–50; late Middle English. See approve, -able

Example Sentences

Kate Huckelbridge, the Coastal Commission’s senior deputy director, said in an interview before the meeting that Doheny cleared many of the hurdles that come with desalination and “represents an easier pathway to an approvable project.”

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Planning board chair Casey Anderson said he had “no doubt” the development proposal would “be approvable” if SHA signed off on the loading area.

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Novavax, a small Maryland firm, appears to have produced an approvable covid vaccine.

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He had said the merged entity would have a U.S. market share of less than 20%, making the transaction “approvable”.

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“The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines could be — albeit with a low probability — approvable in the month of November, when we would have a few single digit million doses of vaccine,” but odds of regulatory clearance rise dramatically in December and January, Moncef Slaoui, the vaccine veteran leading Warp Speed, said in an interview.

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