Sanction vs Sanctions - What's the difference?
sanction | sanctions |
An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
A penalty, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying the above.
To ratify; to make valid.
To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.
As nouns the difference between sanction and sanctions
is that sanction is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid while sanctions is .As verbs the difference between sanction and sanctions
is that sanction is to ratify; to make valid while sanctions is (sanction).sanction
English
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.
