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APPROVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does approver mean?
• APPROVER (noun)
The noun APPROVER has 1 sense:
1. an authority with power to approve
Familiarity information: APPROVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An authority with power to approve
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("approver" is a kind of...):
authority ((usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others)
Derivation:
approve (give sanction to)
Context examples
A restriction on the use of a device, medicine or treatment based on time limit parameters set forth by the approver.
(Limitation of Use Based on Duration of Use, NCI Thesaurus)
A restriction on the use of a device, medicine or treatment based on parameters set forth by the approver.
(Limitation of Use Based on Conditional Approval, NCI Thesaurus)
As a counsellor she was not wanted; but as an approver, (a much safer character,) she was truly welcome.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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