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Rubber Stamp

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Noun

1. handstamp, rubber stamp

a stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand

2. rubber stamp

routine authorization of an action without questions

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rubber Stamp

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noun
1. 
a device used for imprinting dates or commonly used phrases on forms, invoices, etc
2. 
automatic authorization of a payment, proposal, etc, without challenge
3. 
a person who makes such automatic authorizations; a cipher or person of little account
verb rubber-stamp (transitive)
4. 
to imprint (forms, invoices, etc) with a rubber stamp
5. informal
to approve automatically
verb (transitive)
1. 
to imprint (forms, invoices, etc) with a rubber stamp
The form had been rubber-stamped twice.
2. 
to approve automatically
Nearly 60 banks have rubber-stamped a refinancing deal.
Parliament's job is to rubber-stamp his decisions.

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Rubber Stamp

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1. 
a stamp (sense 12) stamp (sense 12a) made of rubber, pressed on an inking pad and used for printing signatures, dates, emblems, etc.
2.  US, Informal
a. 
a person, bureau, legislature, etc. that approves or endorses something in a routine manner, without thought
b. 
any routine approval
verb transitive
1. 
to put the impression of a rubber stamp on
2.  US, Informal
to approve or endorse in a routine manner, without thought
adjective US
3. 
routinely approved or approving

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rubber Stamp

see synonyms of rubber stamp
n.
1. A piece of rubber affixed to a handle and bearing raised characters used to make ink impressions, as of names or dates.
2. also rub·ber·stamp (rŭbər-stămp)
a. A person or body that gives perfunctory approval or endorsement of a policy without assessing its merit.
b. A perfunctory approval or endorsement.
tr.v. rub·ber-stamped, rub·ber-stamp·ing, rub·ber-stamps
1. To mark with the imprint of a rubber stamp.
2. To endorse, vote for, or approve without question or deliberation.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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