ratification

ratify | American Dictionary

ratify
verb[ T ]
us/ˈræt̬·əˌfɑɪ/
(esp. of governments or organizations) to agree in writing to a set of rules, or to officially approve a decision or plan:
Four countries have now ratified the agreement.

ratification

noun[ U ]us/ˌræt̬·ə·fɪˈkeɪ·ʃən/
The Senate will consider ratification of the treaty in July.

ratify | Business English

ratify
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈrætɪfaɪ/us
LAW, POLITICS
to vote on a decision or sign a written agreement to make it official:
The decision will have to be ratified by the board.

Examples of ratify

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Some war-ravaged countries are reluctant to ratify the international conventions, because of the strategic military and political benefits of recruiting children in armed conflicts.
In order to discredit modern architecture, he needed to ratify its antithesis.
Regulation, however comprehensive and widely ratified and implemented, is unlikely to prove highly successful since it is prone to enforcement deficit.
That law protected the brotherhoods' insurance funds and established national mediation mechanisms that ratified the brotherhoods' industrial position.
Dozens of international environmental treaties have been negotiated and ratified.
By 2001, 30 member states had signed and ratified the document.
Some of the time, they take up the adult's correction and, in repeating it, ratify the adult interpretation as correct.
It was she who advanced the steps that he should take in order to legally ratify the young couple's love for one another.
By definition, veto players must ratify policy change, such as joining a trade agreement.
Categorization of adverse events was ratified by anesthetists in the research team and on the scientific advisory group.
Generally, the family's wills would only ratify the agreements in the marriage contracts.
Non-governmental participation was limited to ratifying decisions taken by the executive.
The plans, then, indicate that the banks' architecture ratified not only social stratification but also at least partial commercial segregation.
In this approach, health visitors do not go in with a fixed agenda or a closed choice of predetermined needs to be ratified by clients.
Local law, the federal constitution and industry-wide contracts ratified and implemented these changes.
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