ENDORSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endorse mean? 

• ENDORSE (verb)
  The verb ENDORSE has 4 senses:

1. be behind; approve of

2. give support or one's approval to

3. guarantee as meeting a certain standard

4. sign as evidence of legal transfer

  Familiarity information: ENDORSE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDORSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they endorse    ... he / she / it endorses   
Past simple: endorsed   
Past participle: endorsed   
-ing form: endorsing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be behind; approve of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

back; endorse; indorse; plump for; plunk for; support

Context example:

I backed Kennedy in 1960

Hypernyms (to "endorse" is one way to...):

approve; O.K.; okay; sanction (give sanction to)

Verb group:

back; endorse; indorse; second (give support or one's approval to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "endorse"):

guarantee; warrant (stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of)

champion; defend (protect or fight for as a champion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

endorsement (the act of endorsing)

endorsement (a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books))

endorser (someone who expresses strong approval)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give support or one's approval to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

back; endorse; indorse; second

Context example:

endorse a new project

Hypernyms (to "endorse" is one way to...):

back up; support (give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to)

Verb group:

back; endorse; indorse; plump for; plunk for; support (be behind; approve of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

endorsement (the act of endorsing)

endorsement (a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books))

endorser (someone who expresses strong approval)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Guarantee as meeting a certain standard

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

certify; endorse; indorse

Context example:

certified grade AAA meat

Hypernyms (to "endorse" is one way to...):

guarantee; warrant (stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

endorsement (formal and explicit approval)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Sign as evidence of legal transfer

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

endorse; indorse

Context example:

endorse cheques

Hypernyms (to "endorse" is one way to...):

sign (be engaged by a written agreement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "endorse"):

co-sign; cosign (sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan)

visa (provide (a passport) with a visa)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

endorsement (a signature that validates something)

endorser (a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security)

 Context examples 

Classification system test code for cardiac parameters that are authored or endorsed by organizations.

(CDISC SDTM Consensus Cardiac Classification Systems Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Classification system test name for cardiac parameters that are authored or endorsed by organizations.

(CDISC SDTM Consensus Cardiac Classification Systems Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

I endorse the last words written, but this time there is no doubt in question.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Our situation, stranded without possibility of escape in such a land, was clearly full of danger, and our reasons endorsed every measure of caution which Lord John's experience could suggest.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A registered nurse who has completed an advanced training program endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements in adult medicine.

(Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)

There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Jekyll’s Will and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There were a great many bundles of papers on it, some endorsed as Allegations, and some (to my surprise) as Libels, and some as being in the Consistory Court, and some in the Arches Court, and some in the Prerogative Court, and some in the Admiralty Court, and some in the Delegates' Court; giving me occasion to wonder much, how many Courts there might be in the gross, and how long it would take to understand them all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They are endorsed outside, as you see, ‘Some particulars of the voyage of the bark Gloria Scott, from her leaving Falmouth on the 8th October, 1855, to her destruction in N. lat. 15º 20’, W. long. 25º 14’ on Nov. 6th.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A cold shiver ran through me to find my worst fears thus endorsed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Those statements, as I am bound to admit, we are now in a position to endorse.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)