Definition of ratify Ratify
/ɹæˈtʌfajˌ/ - [ratufay] - rat•i•fy
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What does ratify mean?
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| ratify - approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?" | ||
| sign | ||
| formalise, formalize, validate make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title" | ||
| endorse, indorse sign as evidence of legal transfer; "endorse cheques" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ratify (n.)
To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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ratify
Approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ratify
rat′i-fī, v.t. to approve and sanction: to settle:—pa.t. and pa.p. rat′ified.—ns. Ratificā′tion, act of ratifying or confirming: confirmation; Rat′ifier, one who, or that which, ratifies or sanctions. [Fr. ratifier—L. ratus, fixed by calculation—rēri, ratus, to think, facĕre, to make.]
Wikipedia 
- To ratify ("Ratification") is to adopt (accept and put in force) an important document or treaty that affects an entire country. For example, if a country decided to begin putting something like the Kyoto Protocol into force, then they have just ratified it. To have something ratified, it must usually be agreed to be good and must go through a process.
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🔤- ratify, verb, present, 1st person singular of ratify (infinitive).
- ratify, verb (infinitive).
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