Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - approve

(approves, approving, approved) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it. Not everyone approves of the festival... VERB: oft with brd-neg, V of n 2. If you approve of someone or something, you like and admire them. You’ve never approved of Henry, have you?... VERB: oft with brd-neg, V of n 3. If someone in a position of authority approves a plan or idea, they formally agree to it and say that it can happen. The Russian Parliament has approved a program of radical economic reforms... = sanction VERB: V n 4. see also approved, approving