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Definitions: Sanctioned |
SanctionedAdjective1. Conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair Lewis. 2. Formally approved and invested with legal authority. 3. Established by authority; given authoritative approval; "a list of approved candidates". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sanctioned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: SanctionedSynonyms: approved (adj), canonic (adj), canonical (adj), ratified (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dueness | Privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sanctioned |
| English words defined with "sanctioned": Artaxerxes I, authorised, authoritative, authorized ♦ consent decree, constitutional ♦ execute, extralegal ♦ lawful, legitimate, licit ♦ nonlegal ♦ put to death. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sanctioned": Moof ♦ Program Temporary Fix ♦ Sacred Heart, State trading enterprises ♦ unofficial strike. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sanctioned": Fecial. (references) |
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Business | Strikes still are not officially sanctioned, and accurate statistics on strike incidents are not available. (references) | |
Citizens worshipping in officially sanctioned churches, mosques, and temples reported little or no day-to-day interference by the Government. (references) | ||
Although many of these practices technically constitute prohibited vertical, horizontal or concerted practices as defined in the Act, if it can nevertheless be proved that overriding technological, efficiency or other pro-competitive gains result therefrom, the practices in question will be sanctioned by the Commission. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | Additionally children's attendance at school is not enforced regularly by government authorities and parents are rarely, if ever, sanctioned for keeping their children out of school. (references) |
Rwanda | Credible reports persisted that Rwandan and RCD rebel troops abducted young women from the villages they raided, although it was unlikely that such abductions were sanctioned by the Rwandan Government. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Chad | The Government has imprisoned and sanctioned fundamentalist Islamic imams believed to be promoting conflict among Muslims. (references) |
Economic History | Afghanistan | The UN Security Council repeatedly sanctioned the Taliban for these activities. (references) |
Belgium | The Concert of Nations sanctioned the creation of Belgium in 1830 on the condition that the country remain strictly neutral. (references) | |
Taiwan | In April 1997 the first sanctioned direct cross-Strait shipping began between selected P.R.C. ports and Kaohsiung for cargo being transshipped through Taiwan. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | The Inspector General sanctioned 86 officers in these cases. (references) |
Tunisia | No prison guards or other officials were prosecuted or otherwise disciplined or sanctioned. (references) | |
Peru | By year's end, the CNM also had sanctioned numerous judges following investigations into corruption. (references) | |
Minorities | United Arab Emirates | Discrimination based on national origin, while not legally sanctioned, is prevalent, and occurs in most areas of daily life, including employment, housing, and social interaction. (references) |
Iran | Members of all religious minorities, including Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Baha'is, suffer varying degrees of officially sanctioned discrimination, particularly in the areas of employment, education, and housing. (references) | |
Political Economy | Belarus | The International Labor Organization has sanctioned the regime for these violations. (references) |
Trade | Ireland | The granting of reduced tariffs to developing countries is sanctioned and administered under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). (references) |
Women | Tanzania | These practices include the tradition of inherited wives, which critics contend contributes to the spread of HIV/AIDS, and child marriages, which are sanctioned with parental consent under the law for girls 12 years of age or older. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | A system of officially sanctioned slavery in which government and society join to force individuals to serve masters does not exist. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | Nobody is going to threaten not to televise the Masters or say it can't be a sanctioned tournament unless they let in women. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Sanctioned by your approving voice and by that of your representatives in both Houses of Congress, the spirit of that measure has continually governed me, uninfluenced by any attempts to deter or divert me from it. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | An occurrence has indeed taken place in the Gulf of Mexico which, if sanctioned by the Spanish Government, may make an exception as to that power. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This precaution seems to be due to the general system of fortification which has been sanctioned by Congress, and is recommended by that maxim of wisdom which tells us in peace to prepare for war. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Our past history forbids that we shall in the future acquire territory unless this be sanctioned by the laws of justice and honor. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | When the Governments of the earth shall have established a freedom like our own and shall have sanctioned the pursuit of peace as we have practiced it, I believe the last sorrow and the final sacrifice of international warfare will have been written. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sanctioned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 63.81% of the time. "Sanctioned" is used about 210 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 (past participle) | 63.81% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 23.81% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.9% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.48% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 210 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "sanctioned": government-sanctioned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sanctioned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مقبول (acceptable, accepted, adequate, agreeable, approved of, fair, fairly, fairly good, passable, reasonable, subscribed to, taken, tolerable). (various references) | |
Chinese | 认可 (Approbation, Certificated, Certificating, Homologate, Homologated, Homologating, sanction, sanctioning). (various references) | |
French | sanctionnai, sanctionné, sanctionnâmes, sanctionna. (various references) | |
German | sanktionierten, sanktionierte. (various references) | |
Greek | καθιερωμένοσ (established, oblate, standard, votarist, votary). (various references) | |
Korean | 공동 재하". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anctionedsay.(various references) | |
Romanian | consacrat (acknowledged, consecrate, established, recognized, well known). (various references) | |
Russian | санкционированный. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "sanctioned": unsanctioned. (additional references) | |
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"Sanctioned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sanctionee, sanctioner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sanctioned" (pronounced sa"ngkshund or sa"ngshund) |
| 8 | s a" ng k sh u n d | unsanctioned. |
| 6 | -ng k sh u n d | functioned, malfunctioned. |
| 5 | -k sh u n d | auctioned, sectioned. |
| 4 | -sh u n d | aforementioned, apportioned, auditioned, captioned, cautioned, commissioned, conditioned, cushioned, decommissioned, fashioned, impassioned, mentioned, motioned, optioned, partitioned, petitioned, positioned, proportioned, propositioned, rationed, reconditioned, repositioned, requisitioned, stationed, vacationed. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aland, almond, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, cordoned, cottoned, dampened, darkened, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, margined, millisecond, moistened, moribund, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, poisoned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, questioned, quickened, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reexamined, reopened, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, seasoned, second, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, upland, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
| 4 | -sh u n d | aforementioned, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, captioned, cautioned, commissioned, conditioned, cushioned, decommissioned, fashioned, functioned, impassioned, malfunctioned, mentioned, motioned, optioned, partitioned, petitioned, positioned, proportioned, propositioned, rationed, reconditioned, repositioned, requisitioned, sectioned, stationed, unsanctioned, vacationed. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aland, almond, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, cordoned, cottoned, dampened, darkened, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, margined, millisecond, moistened, moribund, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, poisoned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, questioned, quickened, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reexamined, reopened, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, seasoned, second, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, upland, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-n-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antinodes, canonised, catenoids, contained, instanced, sonicated. | |
-2 letters: aconites, actinons, ancients, anointed, antinode, astonied, canniest, canoeist, canonise, canonist, cantoned, catenoid, codeinas, contains, contends, diocesan, distance, enations, endocast, incanted, insectan, instance, nonacids, sanction, scandent, sedation, sonantic, sonatine, sonicate, tacnodes. | |
-3 letters: acetins, acinose, acnodes, aconite, actinon, actions, ancient, ancones, anoints, atonics, atonies, candent, candies, canines, cantons, cations, cestoid, cineast, coasted, codeias, codeina, codeins, coedits, conines, connate, consent, contain, contend, ctenoid, dacoits, deacons, decants, dentins, deontic, descant, destain, detains, discant, docents, donates, enation, encinas, inanest, incants, incased, indents, instead, intends, intoned, intones, iodates, nancies, nascent, nations, nonacid, noticed, notices, octanes, onanist, sainted, scanned, scanted, secondi, section, sonance, stained, stanine, stannic, tacnode, tendons, tension, toadies. | |
-4 letters: acetin, acnode, actins, action, adonis, aeonic, ancone, anenst, anions, anodes, anodic, anoint, antics, ascend, ascent, atoned, atones, atonic, cadent, cadets, canids, canine, canned, cannie, cannot, canoed, canoes, canons, canted, canton, cantos, casein, casino, cation, centai, centas, centos, cestoi, coated, coatis, codeia, codein, codens, coedit, coined, conies, conine, conins, conned, contes, cosied, cosine, costae, costed, cotans, dacoit, dances, danios, deacon, decant, dentin, detain, dicast, dicots, docent, donate, donnas, donsie, edicts, enacts, enatic, encina, eonian, icones, inanes, incant, incase, incest, indent, innate, insane, insect, intend, intone, iodate, nances, nasion, nastic, nation, nicads, nicest, nitons, nocent, noetic, noised, nonces, nonets, notice, oceans, octads, octane, octans, onside, oscine, sained, scotia, secant, second, sennit, sienna, sinned, sonant, sonnet, stance, staned, stoned, tanned, tannic, teinds, tendon, tenias, tennis, tenons, tineas, tinned, tisane, tocsin, todies, tonics, tonnes. | |
-5 letters: acids, acned, acnes, acted, actin, adios, adits, aeons, aides, ancon, anent, anion, anise, anode, anted, antes, antic, antis, ascot, asdic, aside, atone, cades, cadet, cadis, caids, cains, caned, canes, canid, canoe, canon, canso, canst, canto, cants, cased, caste, cates, cedis, cento, cents, cesta, cesti, cines, cions, cited, cites, coast, coati, coats, codas, coden, codes, coeds, coins, coned, cones, conin, conns, conte, coset, cosie, costa, cotan, coted, cotes, daces, dance, danio, dates, datos, deans, decos, deist, dents, dices, dicot, dicta, diets, dines, dints, disco, ditas, dites, doats, doest, doits, donas, donna, donne, dotes, edict, edits, eidos, enact, entia, eosin, escot, etnas, icons, ideas, inane, inned, inset, iotas, nance, nates, neats, neist, neons, nicad, nides, nines, nites, niton, nodes, noise, nonas, nonce, nones, nonet, nosed, noted, notes, oaten, ocean, octad, octan, odist, onces, onset, ontic, ostia, saice, saint, saned, santo, sated, satin, scant, scena, scend, scent, scion, scone, sedan, senna, senti, seton, since, sited, snide, sodic, sonde, sonic, stade, staid, stain, stand, stane, stead, stein. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-n-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: confidantes, constrained, stanchioned. | |
+2 letters: condensation, decantations, declinations, fecundations, nondiabetics, unsanctioned. | |
+3 letters: commendations, condemnations, condensations, consideration, constrainedly, containerised, densification, denunciations, deracinations, inconsiderate, indoctrinates, indomethacins, nicotinamides, nonassociated, noncandidates, noneducations, unconstrained, undercoatings. | |
+4 letters: condensational, confederations, considerations, consuetudinary, coordinateness, countershading, counterstained, decarbonations, decompensating, decompensation, deconsecrating, deconsecration, decontaminates, densifications, denticulations, discontinuance, discountenance, documentarians, documentations, nonclandestine, unconsolidated, xenodiagnostic. | |
+5 letters: considerateness, containerboards, contraindicates, countershadings, decaffeinations, dechlorinations, decolonizations, decompensations, deconsecrations, decontaminators, denazifications, discontinuances, discountenanced, discountenances, identifications, inconsiderately, inconsideration, nonconsolidated, noninsecticidal, platinocyanides, recommendations, reconsideration, reconsolidating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 63 74 69 6F 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. -.-. - .. --- -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n c t i o n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53678069867581807170 |
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