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verb
accept, affirm, approve, authenticate, authorize, certify, confirm, endorse, ratify, sanction, validate, vouch for
associated concepts: accredited law school, accredited representative
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index
allow (authorize), ascribe, authorize, bestow, certify (approve), concur (agree), confirm, cosign, countenance, delegate, empower, honor, indorse, notarize, qualify (meet standards), seal (solemnize), sign, support (corroborate), trust, verify (confirm)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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v.To recognize officially or authorize; to attribute; to send someone to another place (often internationally) as an official envoy.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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To give official authorization or status. To recognize as having sufficient academic standards to qualify graduates for higher education or for professional practice. In international law: (1) To acknowledge; to receive as an envoy and give that person credit and rank accordingly. (2) To send with credentials as an envoy. This latter use is now the accepted one.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
- accredit
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To give official authorization or status. To recognize as having sufficient academic standards to qualify graduates for higher education or for professional practice. In international law: (1) To acknowledge; to receive as an envoy and give that person credit and rank accordingly. (2) To send with credentials as an envoy. This latter use is now the accepted one.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.