Sanction

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Authoritative permission or approval that makes a course of action valid. synonym: permission. noun

Support or encouragement, as from public opinion or established custom. noun

A consideration, influence, or principle that dictates an ethical choice. noun

The penalty for noncompliance with a law or legal order. noun

A penalty, specified or in the form of moral pressure, that acts to ensure compliance with a social standard or norm. noun

A coercive measure adopted usually by several nations acting together against a nation violating international law. noun

To give official authorization or approval to. transitive verb

To encourage or tolerate by indicating approval. transitive verb

To penalize, as for violating a moral principle or international law. transitive verb

The act of making sacred; the act of rendering authoritative as law; the act of decreeing or ratifying; the act of making binding, as by an oath. noun

A decree; an ordinance; a law: as, the pragmatic sanction. noun

The conferring of authority upon an opinion, practice, or sentiment; confirmation or support derived from public approval, from exalted testimony, or from the countenance of a person or body commanding respect. noun

A provision of a law which enforces obedience by the enactment of rewards or penalties, called respectively remuneratory and punitive sanctions; hence, in utilitarian ethics, the knowledge of the pleasurable or painful consequences of an act, as making it moral or immoral. noun

Synonyms and Authorization, countenance, support, warrant. noun

To give authoritative permission or approval to: ratify; confirm; invest with validity or authority.

To give countenance or support to; approve.

Synonyms Allow, Permit, etc. See allow.

To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve. transitive verb

Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation. noun

An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.

A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.

A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying any of the above.

1. Verb. To give something official approval. 2. Verb. To put someone in their place; to regulate on a bitch. Urban Dictionary

To spontaneously get in a fight and throw down, but also mutually and organized. At the end of the fight, there are no harsh feelings for each other, because it was a two-way agreement. Urban Dictionary

To approve or vouch for. Urban Dictionary

To get accepted into a set (gang) by one of many ways. You can get blessed in Gang Urban Dictionary

Empty and baseless, sanctions are punitive threats thrown about like playing cards from the U.N. at nations that commit grave offenses, such as North Korea and Iran. Compared to a slap on the wrist, but less effective, sanctions are nothing more than United Nations PR "showing" the world that they are hard at work keeping baddies in line. Not quite as powerful as the wag of the finger, sanctions have absolutely no effect on the country they are imposed upon. Urban Dictionary

To not mind someone misbehaving while acknowledging it. A reference to the ineffective economic sanctions that were often put on Russia. Urban Dictionary

1. Authoritative permission or approval that makes a course of action valid. See Synonyms at permission. 2. Support or encouragement, as from public opinion or established custom. 3. A consideration, influence, or principle that dictates an ethical choice. 4.1. A law or decree. 2. The penalty for noncompliance specified in a law or decree. 5. A penalty, specified or in the form of moral pressure, that acts to ensure compliance or conformity. 6. A coercive measure adopted usually by several nations acting together against a nation violating international law. tr.v. sanc·tioned, sanc·tion·ing, sanc·tions 1. To give official authorization or approval to: “The president, we are told, has sanctioned greed at the cost of compassion” (David Rankin). 2. To encourage or tolerate by indicating approval. See Synonyms at approve. 3. To penalize, especially for violating a moral principle or international law. Urban Dictionary

When you take a shit, and you wipe and the toilet paper is perfectly clean, so you don't have to wipe again. Urban Dictionary

When you be getting dat good guy head from your shawty dats dat sanction bop Urban Dictionary

A restriction placed on a Wikipedia editor who is found not to subscribe to leftist thought and ideology Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to sanction:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sanction:
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Words that rhyme with sanction:
chang shun, kang shin, wang shun, zhang shun.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sanction:
legal, official, divine, religious, ultimate, moral, social, previous, legislative, royal, criminal, parliamentary, formal, pragmatic, imperial, only, papal, penal, full, constitutional, supernatural, final, effective, direct, negative, judicial, popular, prior, powerful, necessary, highest, positive, international, solemn, statutory, ecclesiastical, severe, administrative, ethical, governmental, appropriate, civil, congressional, external, sufficient, authoritative, biblical, immediate, explicit, apparent, scriptural, express, disciplinary, rational, sacred, universal, theological, supreme, tacit, punitive, adequate, apostolic, implied, sole, institutional, implicit.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sanction:
bearing, system, scrutiny, bringing, appraisal, norms, silver, members, approach.

Words that sound like sanction:
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