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Approver

Definition: Approver

Approver

Noun

1. An authority with power to approve.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "approver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)


Crosswords: Approver

English words defined with "approver": AllowerProbator. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Approver

"Approver" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.81% of the time. "Approver" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.81%8336,350
Lexical Verb (base form)1.19%1339,140
                    Total100.00%84N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Approver

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

approver

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Approver

Language Translations for "approver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Billiger (cheaper, tawdrier). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lowallagh (allowable, approving, justifiable, legitimate), coonteyder mie. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

approveray

   

Romanian

  

denunţãtor (delator, denouncer, denunciator, informer, sneak, telltale). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ortağını ele veren tanık, itirafçı (confessor). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người tán th nh (advocate, assentient, espouser), người chấp thuận người phê chuẩn người bị bắt thú tội v khai đ"ng bọn, người đ"ng ý (assentient). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Approver

Derivations

Words beginning with "approver": approvers. (additional references)

Words ending with "approver": disapprover. (additional references)

Words containing "approver": disapprovers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Approver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: approbe, approuver, approv, aprove, aprover, Kaprova. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Approver

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-o-p-p-r-r-v"

-1 letter: approve, vaporer.

-2 letters: proper, prover, rapper.

-3 letters: opera, paper, pareo, parer, parve, parvo, paver, prove, raper, raver, repro, roper, rover, vapor.

-4 letters: aero, aper, arvo, aver, orra, over, pare, parr, pave, pear, pepo, perp, pope, pore, prao, prep, proa, prop, rape, rare, rave, reap, rear, repo, repp, roar, rope, rove, vera.

-5 letters: ape, are, ave.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-o-p-p-r-r-v"
 

+1 letter: approvers, reapprove.

 

+2 letters: preapprove, reapproved, reapproves.

 

+3 letters: disapprover, preapproved, preapproves, reapproving.

 

+4 letters: disapprovers, eavesdropper, preapproving, preoperative.

 

+5 letters: appropriative, eavesdroppers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Approver


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 70 70 72 6F 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .--.    .--.    .-.    ---    ...-    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#112 &#112 &#114 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0070 0070 0072 006F 0076 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3582828481887184

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Approver"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, DefinitionGermaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, neamţ, alman, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtmanx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, man adası, man dili

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumäne, Roomainagh, român

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümetürkisch, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, englezesc, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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