Usually means: Giving consent or official agreement.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word approving:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. approving: Merriam-Webster
  2. approving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. approving: Collins English Dictionary
  4. approving: Vocabulary.com
  5. Approving, approving: Wordnik
  6. approving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. approving: Wiktionary
  8. approving: Dictionary.com
  9. approving: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Approving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. approving: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. approving: Rhymezone
  13. Approving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. approving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. approving: FreeDictionary.org
  16. approving: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. approving: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. approving: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  19. approving: Merriam-Webster

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. approving: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Expressing approbation; commending

Similar:
approbative, blessing, approbatory, favorable, approval, favourable, plauditory, acclamatory, applausive, acclaiming, more...

Opposite:
disapproving, condemning, denouncing, rejecting

Types:
thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs sideways, more...

Phrases:
self approving, approving vote, not approving, approving comment, not approving of something, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, moral, self, french, silent, public, ill, worth, half, formal

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Similar:
approbative, blessing, approbatory, favorable, approval, favourable, plauditory, acclamatory, applausive, acclaiming, more...

Opposite:
disapproving, condemning, denouncing, rejecting

Types:
thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs sideways, more...

Phrases:
self approving, approving vote, not approving, approving comment, not approving of something, approving cheer, approving way, the act of approving, not approving something, to nod in a proud or approving way, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, moral, self, french, silent, public, ill, worth, half, formal

Colors:
    green,     blue,     gold,     emerald,     teal, more...



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