Ratified

Definition: Ratified

Ratified

Adjective

1. Formally approved and invested with legal authority.

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Date "ratified" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Synonym: Ratified

Crosswords: Ratified

Reality now ratified (Manic Demise; performing artist: The Creation)

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Books

• List of documents concerning the negotiation of ratified Indian treaties, 1801-1869 (reference)

• Public Policy for Corrections: A Handbook for Decision-Makers: The Ratified Public Correctional Policies of the Amer Correctional Association (reference)

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Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Frank B. Kellogg, standing, with representatives of the governments who have ratified the Treaty for Renunciation of War (Kellogg-Briand Pact), in the East Room of the White House. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miss Alice Pavl is shown sewing the thirty-sixth star on the suffrage ratification banner, the stars having been added from time to time as the various states ratified. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The amendments were subsequently ratified by the legislatures of Massachusetts, March 2, 1939; Georgia, March 18, 1939; and Connecticut, April 19, 1939. (reference)

The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. (reference)

THE PRESENT TREATY, of which the French and English texts are both authentic, shall be ratified. (reference)

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Business

This Convention, which has not yet been ratified by the NPC, provides for the right to form independent unions, to strike, and to demonstrate. (references)

The Office for the Protection of Personal Data, required by the Act, was established in June 2000. The Czech Republic has signed and ratified the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom. (references)

In order to prevent illegal waste traffic from developed countries to Turkey, the Basel Convention was signed in 1989 and ratified in 1994. The Regulations on Hazardous Waste Control were prepared within the framework of Turkish Environmental Law and the Basel Convention, and came into force in 1995. In accordance with regulatory provisions, all waste export is prohibited, except for metallic scraps which contain 85% or more metal. (references)

Children

Malaysia

The act incorporates the principles of the U.N. Convention of the Rights of the Child, which the Government has ratified. (references)

Congo

Following the June visit of Olara Otunnu, the U.N. Special Representative for Children, the Government announced that it had ratified the Optional Protocol banning the participation in war of children under the age of 18. The Government recruited fewer children than in previous years and stopped encouraging the enlistment of children in paramilitary organizations; however, the FAC continued to use child soldiers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

The present Public Liberties Law dates from 1958, and many legal observers agree that the sole amendment to the law, which was ratified in 1973, constituted a setback to civil liberties. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

It was ratified in 1993. (references)

Russia

It has been ratified by the U.S. Senate. (references)

Brazil

None of the agreements have been ratified. (references)

Human Rights

Honduras

In April Congress ratified a constitutional amendment to restructure the Supreme Court and create an independent judiciary. (references)

Zimbabwe

Amendments to the Constitution are not ratified by the public but are subject only to the ZANU-PF-dominated Parliament's approval. (references)

Korea

In October 1997, the U.N. Human Rights Committee issued a statement criticizing the attempt to withdraw from the ICCPR, noting that countries that had ratified the ICCPR could not withdraw from the covenant. (references)

Minorities

Tajikistan

An agreement ratified by the Russian Duma in December 1996 allows for dual Russian and Tajik citizenship. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

The new agreement must still be ratified by the Brazilian Congress. (references)

NIGERIA

Nigeria has also ratified the ILO convention prohibiting forced labor. (references)

Political Rights

Monaco

The Director and other members are nominated by the Minister of State; their nominations are ratified by the Prince. (references)

Nepal

A 1999 royal ordinance, which Parliament has ratified, also requires that at least 20 percent of all village and municipal level seats be reserved for female candidates. (references)

Somalia

In May a referendum was held with 97 percent of voters supporting Somaliland independence; voters also ratified the political party legislation approved in 2000 by Parliament. (references)

Trade

Croatia

The SAA is to be signed in October 2001 and ratified by the member states within 18 months. (references)

Jordan

This agreement must be ratified by Jordan's parliament and some European Union member nations before it comes into force. (references)

Botswana

At present, SADC sets policy through protocols which must be ratified by two-thirds of member states to bring them into effect. (references)

Worker Rights

Vanuatu

The country has not ratified ILO Convention 182 on the worst abuses of child labor. (references)

Niger

In 2000 the Government ratified ILO Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labor. (references)

Estonia

In June the Government ratified ILO Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labor. (references)

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Ending with "ratified": widely-ratified.

Arabic 

‏مبرم (approved, irrevocable, unalterable). (various references)

Chinese 

批准 (Approve, Approved, Approving, authorise, authorised, Authorize, Authorized, Authorizing, ratification, ratify, Ratifying). (various references)

Danish

denne Traktat skal ratificeres af De hoeje kontraherende Parter (this Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties). (various references)

Dutch

dit Verdrag zal door de Hoge Verdragsluitende Partijen worden bekrachtigd (this Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties). (various references)

French

ratifiés, ratifiées, ratifié, ratifièrent, ratifia. (various references)

German

bestätigte (acknowledged, countersigned, probated, validated). (various references)

Greek 

η παρούσα συνθήκη θα κυρωθεί από τα Yψηλά Συμβαλλόμενα Mέρη (this Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties). (various references)

Italian

il presente Trattato sara'ratificato dalle Alte Parti Contraenti (this Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties). (various references)

Korean 

비준하�". (various references)

Manx

shickyrit (affirmed, assured, ensured, secured). (various references)

Pig Latin

atifiedray.(various references)

Portuguese

ratificado. (various references)

Spanish

ratificado. (various references)

Swedish

detta fördrag skall ratificeras av de höga fördragsslutande parterna (this Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties). (various references)

Turkmen 

tassyklanmak (be ratified). (various references)

Ukrainian

ратифікований. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "ratified": gratified, interstratified, stratified, unstratified. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ratified" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Artemide, Artifex, rastified, ratfied, ratiied, rawified, restaffed, restified, satified. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: adrift, airted, dafter, faired, rafted, rifted, tidier, tirade, trifid.

-3 letters: afire, afrit, after, aider, aired, dater, deair, defat, derat, draft, drift, fader, fared, fated, feria, fetid, fired, fried, irade, irate, radii, rated, redia, refit, retia, tared, teiid, terai, tired, trade, tread, triad, tried.

-4 letters: adit, aide, airt, arid, daft, dare, dart, date, deaf.

+1 letter: airlifted, gratified.

+2 letters: fimbriated, fratricide, infuriated, stratified.

+3 letters: defibrinate, differentia, fibrillated, fratricides, infiltrated.

+4 letters: airfreighted, certificated, defibrillate, defibrinated, defibrinates, differentiae, differential, unstratified.

+5 letters: defibrillated, defibrillates, defibrillator, defibrinating, defibrination, differentials, differentiate, presanctified, refundability.