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noun

approval

CEFR B1

the act of approving or giving permission

In a sentence

Six example sentences with approval, each labelled with its topic.

  • Building approval took eighteen months, and the drawings returned twice because the roof pitch exceeded the local limit.

    Architecture

  • The loan needed approval from a committee that met quarterly, which delayed the harvest equipment by an entire season.

    Economics

  • The transfer went through only after approval from two signatories, a rule the firm adopted following the 1998 losses.

    Finance

  • The drug won approval after a twelve-year review, and the first prescriptions were written within a week.

    Medicine

  • The update sat in the app store awaiting approval for nine days while the team fielded angry emails.

    Technology

  • The treaty needed approval from two thirds of the senate, a bar it cleared by a single vote.

    Politics

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