adeviceused forprintingwithraisedletters,numbers, orpicturesmade of anelasticsubstancesuch as rubber that youcoverwithinkandpressagainst asurface, or theprintedletters, etc., made in this way:
Theguardmarkedmypasswith a rubber stamp.
disapprovingA rubber stamp is also anapprovalgiven without muchthought:
Themayorhas a lot ofpower, andcitycounselorsprovidea rubber stamp.
rubber-stamp
verb[T]
disapprovingus/ˈrʌb·ərˈstæmp/
toapprovesomething without giving it muchthought:
Congressis not going tosimplyrubber-stamp anypolicythepresidentproposes.
Without professionalism, legislatures may simply serve as arubberstampfor more powerful bureaucracies, interests, or governors.
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To further their experiment researchers tested the device using arubberstampmolded in the shape of human lips.
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In fact, they might well be indicating the opposite : that the executive is bypassing congress due to the latter's refusal to act as a mererubberstamp.
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I do not expect you to wave through orrubberstampeverything you are confronted with in the coming years.
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The proposed organisation of the council with numerous large committees looks very much as though it must be arubberstamp.
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This is not a client assembly, or arubberstamp.
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At the moment it is a bit of arubberstamp.
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It could not mean a great increase in price if the eggs were marked with arubberstamp.
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It is expected to be arubberstamp.
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A decision has been made—it has been signed, sealed and delivered, and we are supposed to put therubberstampon it tonight.
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They have assumed the status of little more than arubberstamp.
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Will these commissioners, review board members—whatever we call them—rubberstamp?
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It might be nothing more than arubberstamp.
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They become purely bureaucratic machines, the members of which are able to do very little more thanrubberstampthe recommendations of their officials.
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The name is not printed but stamped with arubberstamp—price approximately £5·50—and the annual cost is about that of answering this question.
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