endorsement

1 a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books); "the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book" [syn: indorsement, blurb]

2 a speech seconding a motion; "do I hear a second?" [syn: second, secondment, indorsement]

3 formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, indorsement, warrant, imprimatur]

4 a signature that validates something; "the cashier would not cash the check without an endorsement" [syn: indorsement]

5 the act of endorsing; "a star athlete can make a lot of money from endorsements" [syn: indorsement]

English

Noun

1. the act or quality of endorsing

   George W. Bush's reelection can be interpreted as an endorsement of his Iraq policy.

Endorsement may refer to:

• Political endorsement
• Endorsement terrorism
• Endorsement test, a U.S. Supreme Court test for Church-State separation
• Endorsement (advertising), or testimonal, written or spoken statement extolling the virtue of some product, typically a contract to promote a product by a celebrity or athlete.
• A notation made on a Driver's license
• A signature on a negotiable instrument indicating a person's intent to become a party to the instrument.
• A specific example of the above, the signature on the back of a check, authorizing it to be deposited by a holder in due course.
• Java programming language, where ""endorsed"" is a sub-directory in a lib directory, in which the contained classes are treated differently from classes in regular classpath.

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