rubberstamp

Thân thiện

The clerk rubberstamps the official form with a blue ink pad.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To approve automatically or without proper consideration: To give official authorization or consent in a routine, uncritical, or perfunctory manner.
   • To stamp with a rubber stamp: To physically mark a document with an inked rubber stamp, typically as an indication of official approval.

Usage Examples

• Verb (Approve automatically):
  • The committee was expected to rubberstamp the proposal without debate.
  • He accused the council of simply rubberstamping the developer's plans.
• Verb (Stamp physically):
  • The customs officer will rubberstamp your passport upon entry.
  • Please have the form rubberstamped by the department head.

Advanced Usage

• Used figuratively: Often implies a lack of independent judgment or scrutiny.
  • The board doesn't review the details; they just rubberstamp whatever the CEO proposes.
• Used as a modifier: Describes a process or body that gives automatic approval.
  • The new law turned the committee into a mere rubberstamp body.

Variants and Related Words

• Rubber stamp (noun): 1. A physical stamp made of rubber. 2. A person or group that gives automatic approval.
  • Noun (Physical object): He reached for his rubber stamp and ink pad.
  • Noun (Person/Group): The parliament was seen as a rubber stamp for the president's decrees.

Synonyms

• Approve formally: Endorse, authorize, sanction.
• Approve automatically: Automate, okay perfunctorily.

Related Phrases

• To give the rubber stamp to something: To grant official, often automatic, approval to something.
  • The final step is to give the rubber stamp to the budget.

Học thuật

Verb

1. approve automatically
2. stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document

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