sanction

8 letters · noun · scores 2,200 in SpellHuntr

noun

formal and explicit approval

verb

give sanction to

Sanction in a sentence

The whalers had been operating in the contested waters off the island with sanction from the Japanese government.

The United States enacted a new round of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.

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