homologate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to approve; confirm or ratify.
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to register (a specific make of automobile in general production) so as to make it eligible for international racing competition.
verb
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Scots law to approve or ratify (a deed or contract, esp one that is defective)
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law to confirm (a proceeding, etc)
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to recognize (a particular type of car or car component) as a production model or component rather than a prototype, as in making it eligible for a motor race
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Etymology
Origin of homologate
1635–45; < Medieval Latin homologātus (past participle of homologāre < Greek homologeîn to agree to, allow); see -ate 1
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We can't homologate a lightweight chassis and bring it because it is $2m we would be over the cap.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2022
She tapped with a tiny toe on the pebbles, affecting a choler the twinkle in her eyes did not homologate.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
In cases of emergency these limits have been disregarded, and Parliament subsequently asked to homologate the action by granting an indemnity to those concerned.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
And by this we homologate that testimony given at Rutherglen, the 29th of May, 1679, and all the faithful testimonies of these who have gone before, as also of these who have suffered of late.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr
Indeed, Paris learned the lesson of power so well, that it became her settled conviction that what she did to-day France would homologate to-morrow.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Being a globally homologated product, the Amalfi has to meet emissions requirements for other markets, including stop-start engine cycling, which while defeatable comes back each time the car is started.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Garella would also become Project Manager for the company’s associated racing program, designing the P4/5 Competizione, which was built on a Ferrari F430 Scuderia and homologated to race in the Nurburgring 24 Hours.
From The Verge ● Apr. 6, 2016
Israel, at Sinai, vowed to present the first-born of their males and their first-fruits to the Lord; and that vow they homologated when they Covenanted again.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
It is homologated with the primitive mountains, in the solidity of its substance and in the position of its strata; with the tertiary species, again, in its containing marks of organised bodies.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton
To systems of government, therefore, under which the unlawful authority of the rulers is homologated by the servile acquiescence of a majority of the people, a minority are not bound to yield subjection.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
But "the homologating of new suppliers for specific components and the build-up of production would take several months", while stocks of Nexperia chips are predicted to last only a few weeks, it added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
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