rubber stamp

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rubber stamp

1. A piece of rubber affixed to a handle and bearing raised characters used to make ink impressions, as of names or dates.

2. also rub·ber·stamp (rŭb′ər-stămp′)

a. A person or body that gives perfunctory approval or endorsement of a policy without assessing its merit.

b. A perfunctory approval or endorsement.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

rubber stamp

1. a device used for imprinting dates or commonly used phrases on forms, invoices, etc

2. automatic authorization of a payment, proposal, etc, without challenge

3. a person who makes such automatic authorizations; a cipher or person of little account

vb (tr)

4. to imprint (forms, invoices, etc) with a rubber stamp

5. informal to approve automatically

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

rub′ber stamp′

1. a device with a rubber printing surface that is coated with ink by pressing it on an ink-saturated pad, used for imprinting names, standard messages, etc.

2. a person, government agency, etc., that gives approval automatically or routinely.

3. such approval.

[1885–90]

rub′ber-stamp′, v.t.

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Noun	1.	rubber stamp - a stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand handstamp seal, stamp - a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents
	2.	rubber stamp - routine authorization of an action without questions empowerment, authorisation, authorization - the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

Translations

خَتْم أرْقام مَطّاطِيَّه

razítko

gummistempel

Gummistempel Stempel

timbre de goma

kumileimasin

tampon

gumibélyegzõ

stimpill

bollo bulino francobollo timbrare timbro

stempel

gummistempel stempel

ıstampamühür

橡皮图章

rubber stamp

n → timbro di gomma

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

rubber

(ˈrabə) noun

1. (also adjective) (of) a strong elastic substance made from the juice of certain plants (especially the rubber tree), or an artificial substitute for this. Tyres are made of rubber; rubber boots.

2. (also eˈraser) a piece of rubber used to rub out pencil etc marks. a pencil, a ruler and a rubber.

3. (slang) a condom.

4. a rubber band.

ˈrubbery adjective

like rubber.

rubber band

an elastic band.

rubber stamp

an instrument with rubber figures, letters etc which is used to stamp a name, date etc on books or papers.

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The window contained photographs of more or less undressed dancing girls; nondescript packages in wrappers like patent medicines; closed yellow paper envelopes, very flimsy, and marked two-and-six in heavy black figures; a few numbers of ancient French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue china bowl, a casket of black wood, bottles of marking ink, and rubber stamps; a few books, with titles hinting at impropriety; a few apparently old copies of obscure newspapers, badly printed, with titles like THE TORCH, THE GONG - rousing titles.

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