Usually means: Official approval without careful consideration.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word rubber stamp:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. rubber stamp: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rubber-stamp, rubber stamp: Merriam-Webster
  3. rubber stamp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rubber-stamp, rubber stamp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rubber-stamp, rubber-stamp, rubber stamp: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rubber stamp: Vocabulary.com
  7. rubber-stamp: Wordnik
  8. rubber-stamp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rubber stamp: Wiktionary
  10. rubber-stamp, rubber stamp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rubber stamp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rubber-stamp, rubber stamp: Dictionary.com
  13. rubber-stamp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Rubber-stamp, Rubber stamp (politics), Rubber stamp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. rubber stamp: Rhymezone
  16. rubber stamp: FreeDictionary.org
  17. rubber stamp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. rubber-stamp, rubber stamp: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. rubber-stamp, rubber stamp: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rubber stamp: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rubber-stamp as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rubber stamp)

adjective:  (figuratively) Of a person, organisation, or process, making decisions or approving matters routinely or without real power.
noun:  A piece of rubber or similar material with a design or text carved or molded for the purpose of transferring ink or dye to imprint that design on another object.
noun:  (figuratively) A person or organisation that approves, routinely or as a formality, matters decided by some other person or organisation.
verb:  (figuratively) To process, approve or decide matters routinely rather than through careful consideration.

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