approved

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɹuːvd/

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• Rhymes: -uːvd

approved (not comparable)

1. Having received approval.

   Employees' approved expense claims will be reimbursed by the 4th of the following month.

2. (archaic) Proven or demonstrated by experience.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:

     Now woorthy Tamburlaine, haue I repoſ’d,
     In thy approoued Fortunes all my hope,
     What thinkſt thou man, ſhal come of our attempts?

• authorized (in some legal contexts, authorization is different from approval)

approved

1. simple past and past participle of approve