Ratify

Definition: Ratify

Ratify

Verb

1. Write one's name in token of assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties signed the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?".

Date "ratify" was first used: some time around 1357. (references)

Note: Ratify \Rat"i*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Ratified; present participle verb or noun Ratifying.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Ratify

Synonym: sign (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assent	Confirm, affirm; ratify, appprove, indorse, countersign; corroborate.
Compact	Make a bargain, strike a bargain; come to terms, come to an understanding; compromise; set at rest; close, close with; conclude, complete, settle; confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite; endorse, indorse; put the seal to; sign, seal; (attest); indent.
Evidence	Indorse, countersign, corroborate, support, ratify, bear out, uphold, warrant.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ratify

English words defined with "ratify": Counterseal ♦ Earnest money, Enseal ♦ Obsignate ♦ Ratifying ♦ To say amen to, To strike a bargain. (references)

Etymologies containing "ratify": Enseal. (references)

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Any convention so ratified shall be registered by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, but shall only be binding upon the Members which ratify it. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Yemen	April 2000. Parliament has yet to ratify the revised law, however. (references)
	San Marino	Parliament also has the power to ratify contracts with other countries. (references)
	North Korea	In reality, the Assembly serves only to ratify decisions made by the ruling KWP. (references)
Human Rights	Syria	Defendants do not have the right to appeal verdicts, but sentences are reviewed by the Minister of Interior, who may ratify, nullify, or alter them. (references)
	Malaysia	In addition to recommending that the Government take steps to permit freedom of assembly, it calls for the Government to ratify three international human rights instruments, namely the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Political Rights; and the Convention against Torture. (references)
Political Economy	INDONESIA	Indonesia was the first country in the world to ratify the WIPO Copyright Treaty, but has not ratified the companion WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. (references)
Trade	Haiti	Haiti's parliament must vote to ratify this membership. (references)
	Costa Rica	Disbursements of loans from the multilateral development banks to the government are generally delayed by the requirement that the legislature ratify the loans, difficulties in obtaining local currency counterpart funds required by the banks, and administrative delays. (references)
	Austria	Until the United States and the EU ratify an agreement on mutual recognition of safety certification for a particular product area (i.e., a product needs to be tested just once before being marketed on either side of the Atlantic), most American products sold in the EU will require the "CE" mark (the certification that a product has met EU safety and quality standards) once all directives have been passed and all transition periods have expired. (references)
Worker Rights	Bolivia	The plan also calls on the Government to ratify ILO Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labor, which it had not done at year's end. (references)
	Lithuania	Lithuania did not ratify the clause recognizing the right to submit collective complaints to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. (references)
	Tanzania	The last major strike took place in 1998. The regional ILO office continued to call upon the Government to ratify the other core conventions. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	But His Catholic Majesty has twice declared his determination to send a minister to the United States to ask explanations on certain points and to give them respecting his delay to ratify the treaty.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	We will ask Congress to ratify the new GATT accord.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Ratify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 94.39% of the time. "Ratify" is used about 196 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	94.39%	185	22,646
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.61%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	196	N/A

Expressions using "ratify": ratify a law ♦ ratify the agreement. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "ratify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		bekragtig (acknowledge, confirm, corroborate, sanction). (various references)

Albanian		ratifikoj (confirm, vote through), vë vulë (hallmark, impress, Mark, stamp), sanksionoj (authorise, authorize), miratoj (accede, accept, adopt, approbate, approve, assent, confirm, consent, countenance, enact, Favor, favour, pass, recognize, root for, sanction, vote in). (various references)

Arabic		‏صدق (accept, approve, assent, attest, believe, certify, confirm, credit, genuineness, hold good, make believe, notarize, ok, okay, okey, probity, sanction, sincerity, trueness, trustiness, truth, validity, veracity, verity). (various references)

Bulgarian		ратифицирам (confirm, sanction, validate), потвърждавам (accredit, acknowledge, affirm, bear out, certify, clench, corroborate, endorse, homologate, reaffirm, speak to, substantiate, support, testify, undertake, uphold, validate, verify, vindicate, vouch, warrant). (various references)

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

Czech		ratifikovat, schválit (approbate, authorize, commend, ok, okay, pass, sanction, validate, vote), potvrdit (acknowledge, affirm, approve, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, establish, testify, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify). (various references)

Danish		traktataendringerne ratificeres (to ratify the amendments to the treaties). (various references)

Dutch		ratificeren, bekrachtigen (acknowledge, confirm, corroborate, energize, excite, operate, sanction). (various references)

Esperanto		ratifi. (various references)

Farsi		تصویب کردن (Allow, Approve, Authorize, Okay, Pass, Resolute), بتصویب رساندن . (various references)

Finnish		ratifioida, vahvistaa (acknowledge, confirm, corroborate, reinforce, strengthen, verify). (various references)

French		ratifier. (various references)

German		ratifizieren. (various references)

Greek		επικυρώνω (affirm, attest, authenticate, confirm, sanction, validate). (various references)

Hebrew		לאשרר, לאשר חוקית (legalise, legalize). (various references)

Hungarian		ratifikál (to ratify), törvénybe iktat (codify, to enact), jóváhagy (affirm, approbate, approve, assent, confirm, endorse, indorse, o.k., ok, okay, okey, sanction, to approve, to approve of, to assent, to consent, to endorse, to indorse, to o.k., to ratify, to uphold, to validate, upheld, uphold). (various references)

Icelandic		staðfesta (confirm). (various references)

Italian		omologare (approve, homologate, sanction). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		批准 (ratification). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひじゅ�" (ratification). (various references)

Korean		비준하십시�". (various references)

Manx		shickyraghey (affirm, affirmation, assure, certify, certifying, convince, ensure, make sure, ratification, ratifying, secure, verify, vouch). (various references)

Pig Latin		atifyray.(various references)

Portuguese		ratificar (acknowledge, affirm, confirm, corroborate, countersign, homologous, recompense, sanction), sancionar (approbate, approve, authorise, authorize, avouch, endorse, indorse, sanction, sign, sustain), homologar (acknowledge, affirm, confirm, corroborate, homologate, probation, sanction), confirmar (acknowledge, affirm, approve, assure, confirm, corroborate, corroboratory, countersign, endorse, firm, grant a pardon, hold true, indorse, sanction, seal, to confirm, vouch), aprovar (acclaim, accredit, allow, applaud, approbate, approve, clap, endorse, find, indorse, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okra, sanction). (various references)

Romanian		ratifica (approve, confirm), sancţiona (amerce, approbate, approve, punish, sanctify, sanction, sign, trounce), pecetlui (fix, seal), omologa (acknowledge, admit, approve, assimilate, confirm, homologate), aproba (accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, allow, answer with a nod, applaud, approbate, approve, close, countenance, endorse, grant, homologate, pass, sanctify, sanction, uphold). (various references)

Russian		ратифицировать (confirm, validate). (various references)

Scottish		réitich (conciliate, set in order). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ratifikovati, potvrditi (acknowledge, affirm, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, homologate, reaffirm, sanction, substantiate, validate, verify), potvrđivati (indorse). (various references)

Spanish		revalidar (certify, confirm, revalidate), ratificar (affirm, bind, endorse, indorse, to witness). (various references)

Swedish		stadfästa (bind, confirm, establish, sanction). (various references)

Thai		ยืนยัน (assert, avow, remain abreast of, seal). (various references)

Turkish		tasdik etmek (certify, confirm, stamp), onaylamak (accept, acknowledge, affirm, approve, attest, authorise, authorize, be recognizant of, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, countersign, endorse, give countenance to, grant, hear, hold with, homologate, indorse, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lend countenance to, o.k., ok, okay, recognize, sanction, smile on, stamp, subscribe, sustain, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify, visa, vise, vouch, witness), onamak (approve, countenance). (various references)

Turkmen		tassyklamak. (various references)

Ukranian		ратифікувати (confirm, validate), затверджувати (appoint, approbate, approve, certify, o.k., ok, okay, okey, validate). (various references)

Vietnamese		thông qua, phê chuẩn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adfirmabat, adfirmans, conprobati, conprobatum, conprobent, foederabitur, foederabuntur, foederari, foederata, foederati, foederatos, foederatus, ratus, sanciretur, sancta, sanctae, sanctam, sanctas, sancte, sancti, sanctis, sancto, sanctoque, sanctorum, sanctos, sanctum, sanctumque, sanctus, sanctusque. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	ratificare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ratify": ratifying. (additional references)
	Words ending with "ratify": gratify, interstratify, stratify. (additional references)
	Words containing "ratify": gratifying, gratifyingly, interstratifying, stratifying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ratify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: artif, Artifex, pratify, radify, raiby, raif, Ratany, ratif, ratufy, Rififi, satify. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ratify" (pronounced ra"tufī')
6	r a" t u f ī'	gratify, stratify.
4	-t u f ī'	beautify, certify, decertify, demystify, fortify, identify, justify, misidentify, mortify, mystify, notify, quantify, rectify, stultify, testify.
3	-u f ī'	acidify, amplify, calcify, clarify, classify, codify, crucify, declassify, deify, detoxify, dignify, disqualify, diversify, edify, electrify, exemplify, falsify, gentrify, glorify, horrify, indemnify, intensify, liquefy, magnify, modify, mollify, mummify, nullify, ossify, oversimplify, pacify, personify, petrify, purify, qualify, ramify, reclassify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, solidify, specify, terrify, typify, unify, verify, vilify.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-i-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: afrit, fairy.
	-2 letters: airt, airy, arty, fair, fart, fiar, fiat, frat, fray, frit, raft, rift, tray.
	-3 letters: aft, air, ait, arf, art, far, fat, fay, fir, fit, fry, rat, ray, ria, rif, rya, tar, try, yar.
	-4 letters: ai, ar, at, ay, fa, if, it, ta, ti, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-i-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: frailty, gratify.
	+2 letters: craftily, draftily, feracity, infantry, stratify.
	+3 letters: formality, forsythia, fragility, frugality, profanity, ratifying.
	+4 letters: forsythias, fraternity, friability, fritillary, frontality, gratifying, profitably.
	+5 letters: certifiably, factorylike, falteringly, familiarity, farcicality, filamentary, formability, formatively, fractiously, frantically, functionary, infantryman, infantrymen, informality, informatory, interfamily, irrefutably, parfocality, stratifying.
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