Approve vs Vendor - What's the difference?
approve | vendor |
To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.
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, title= To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (George Gordon Byron),
* (Francis Parkman),
To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
* (Henry Rogers),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (William Black),
(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.
A person or a company that vends or sells.
As a verb approve
is to sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm or approve can be (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.As a noun vendor is
a person or a company that vends or sells.approve
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare prove, approbate.Verb
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- Opportunities to approve worth.
- He had approved himself a great warrior.
- 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
- His accountapproves him a man of thought.
- The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
- They had not approved of the deposition of James.
- They approved of the political institutions.
- Note: This word, when it signifies to be pleased with, to think favorably (of''), is often followed by ''of .