APPROVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does approving mean? 

• APPROVING (noun)
  The noun APPROVING has 1 sense:

1. the formal act of approving

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

• APPROVING (adjective)
  The adjective APPROVING has 1 sense:

1. expressing or manifesting praise or approval

  Familiarity information: APPROVING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPROVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The formal act of approving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

approval; approving; blessing

Context example:

his decision merited the approval of any sensible person

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

support (aiding the cause or policy or interests of)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "approving"):

acceptance; acceptation; adoption; espousal (the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception)

backing; backup; championship; patronage (the act of providing approval and support)

admiration; appreciation (a favorable judgment)

reinforcement; reward (an act performed to strengthen approved behavior)

• APPROVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expressing or manifesting praise or approval

Synonyms:

affirmative; approbative; approbatory; approving; plausive

Context example:

an affirmative nod

Similar:

favorable; favourable (encouraging or approving or pleasing)

 Context examples 

"I have great hopes for my boy," observed Jo, watching him fly over the fence with an approving smile.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

While you were at all in suspense I kept my feelings to myself, but now that you are so completely decided I have no hesitation in approving.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Missis Gummidge has worked like a—I doen't know what Missis Gummidge an't worked like, said Mr. Peggotty, looking at her, at a loss for a sufficiently approving simile.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Sir Thomas looked again, and then replied with an approving smile, I am happy to find our sentiments on this subject so much the same.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You would need to ask, of course, but management seems willing to make you feel valued by approving some of these benefits.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

No, no, he said; you must not walk here; the dogs are too fierce; and then he added, with what he evidently meant for grim pleasantry—for he looked round to catch the approving smile of the rest—and you may have enough of such matters before you go to sleep.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For two months, however, I was true to my determination; for two months, I led a life of such severity as I had never before attained to, and enjoyed the compensations of an approving conscience.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

IRB responsibility include but not limited to the reviewing, approving, and providing continuing review of trial protocol and amendments and of the methods and material(s) to be used in obtaining and documenting informed consent of the trial.

(Institutional Review Board, NCI Thesaurus)

Young, supple and active, with all the pent energies from years of pure and healthy living, it was not long before he could manage his horse and his weapon well enough to earn an approving nod from critical men-at-arms, or to hold his own against Terlake and Ford, his fellow-servitors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)