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sanction

noun

Reveal meaning and examples

Official authorization; also a penalty used to enforce a rule.

The event needed the committee's sanction before invitations could be sent.

Dictionary practice example.

Another workshop committed an infringement by displaying a member's work after permission had expressly been refused. The board's sanction for that violation was exclusion from the next exhibition, a penalty rather than an approval.

From Rules and Authority.

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