Usually means: Gives consent, authorization, or agreement.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word approves:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. approves: Merriam-Webster
  2. approves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. approves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Approves, approves: Wordnik
  5. approves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. approves: Wiktionary
  7. approves: Dictionary.com
  8. approves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. approves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. approves: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. approves: Legal dictionary

(Note: See approve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (approve)

verb:  (transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
verb:  (transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
verb:  (intransitive, followed by "of") To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
verb:  (archaic, transitive, usually with a reflexive pronoun) To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
verb:  (transitive, law, English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
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