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APPROVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does approver mean? 

APPROVER (noun)
  The noun APPROVER has 1 sense:

1. an authority with power to approveplay

  Familiarity information: APPROVER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


APPROVER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An authority with power to approve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("approver" is a kind of...):

authority ((usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others)

Derivation:

approve (give sanction to)


 Context examples 


A restriction on the use of a device, medicine or treatment based on time limit parameters set forth by the approver.

(Limitation of Use Based on Duration of Use, NCI Thesaurus)

A restriction on the use of a device, medicine or treatment based on parameters set forth by the approver.

(Limitation of Use Based on Conditional Approval, NCI Thesaurus)

As a counsellor she was not wanted; but as an approver, (a much safer character,) she was truly welcome.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)



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