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   endorse

   /ɪnˈdɔːs/

   verb

   • 1. declare one's public approval or support of: "the report was endorsed by the college"
   • ▪ recommend (a product) in an advertisement: "he earns more money endorsing sports clothes than playing football" Similar supportbackapprove (of)be in agreement withfavourrecommendadvocatechampionsubscribe toupholdaffirmconfirmauthorizeauthenticateratifysanctionwarrantinformal:throw one's weight behindstick up forOpposite oppose
   • 2. sign (a cheque or bill of exchange) on the back to make it payable to someone other than the stated payee or to accept responsibility for paying it. Similar countersignsign on the backinitialautographput one's mark oninscribesuperscribewitnessvalidatearchaic:underwriteside-signrare:chirographate
   • ▪ write (a comment) on a document: "the speed and accuracy achieved will be endorsed on the certificate"
   • 3. (in the UK) mark (a driving licence) with the penalty points given as a punishment for a driving offence: "his licence was endorsed with five points"
   • 4. (in South Africa under apartheid) order a black person to leave an urban area for failing to meet certain requirements of the Native Laws Amendment Act: "a further 500,000 had been endorsed out of urban areas under the pass laws"

   Word Origin late 15th century (in the sense ‘write on the back of’; formerly also as indorse): from medieval Latin indorsare, from Latin in- ‘in, on’ + dorsum ‘back’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. endorsable adjective
   • 2. endorser noun

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