ratified

[rat-uh-fahyd]

adjective

1. confirmed by formal or authoritative consent or approval.

   The international Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights treaty of all time.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of ratify.

Other Word Forms

• unratified adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ratified¹

ratify ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Registered nurses who work at 19 University of California facilities have ratified a new contract after voting concluded Saturday.

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Since there was no definition of national citizenship until the 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War, people were citizens of a particular state, which is what made them citizens of the U.S.

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The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920, a little more than a century ago.

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The compromise will have to be ratified by more than 190 countries gathered here for COP30.

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Before Tesla voters ratified Elon Musk’s trillion dollar pay package, the Tesla CEO derided proxy advisors as “corporate terrorists.”

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