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ratified
[ rat-uh-fahyd ]
adjective
- confirmed by formal or authoritative consent or approval:
The international Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights treaty of all time.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of ratify ( def ).
Other Words From
- un·rat·i·fied adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of ratified1
Example Sentences
NFL owners also ratified a proposal by the competition committee to add two teams to the playoff field, increasing it from 14 to 16, if the regular season is cut short by the pandemic.
All proposed ownership sales are vetted by the NFL’s finance committee and must be ratified by a three-quarters vote of the league’s 32 owners.
The deal is supposed to be ratified within the next two years.
Its mission is to uphold international treaties and binational agreements, which the commission itself writes but Congress has to ratify.
Approval by three-fourths of the states is required for an amendment to be ratified.
The men who drafted and ratified the Bill of Rights had no issue with the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crimes.
Kerry was a major proponent of the New START treaty with Russia, which the Senate ratified after a long debate in December 2010.
The law, already passed by the cabinet on October 10, has yet to be officially ratified by the interim president, Adly Mansour.
They came of age as Reagan defined a new political era and Clinton ratified it.
Firstly, the API withstood the turmoil of the “Arab Spring,” and was ratified twice in its last two summits in Baghdad and Doha.
Mechem says that if at the time of signing, the person doing so purported to act as agent, the act might be ratified.
Both their and my agreements were immediately ratified, and they are in high spirits.
But offerings of this kind were presented when federal transactions were ratified by the worshippers of God.
Thus if a secretary calls a meeting instead of the directors, and his action is properly ratified by them, the call is effective.
The 1851 State Constitution was ratified by the voters by an overwhelming majority at the next election.
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