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imprimatur

/im-pri-mah-ter, -mey-, -prahy-/US // ˌɪm prɪˈmɑ tər, -ˈmeɪ-, -praɪ- //UK // (ˌɪmprɪˈmeɪtə, -ˈmɑː-) //

印鉴,印章,印记,印证

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an official license to print or publish a book, pamphlet, etc., especially a license issued by a censor of the Roman Catholic Church.Compare nihil obstat.
    • : sanction or approval; support: Our plan has the company president's imprimatur.

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Examples

  • Froomkin believes that, instead of helping struggling, smaller news organizations, Facebook News breaches traditional journalistic ethics and gives the maligned social media giant an undeserved imprimatur of legitimacy.

  • The size of the deal, and the imprimatur of the Pentagon as a customer, could spark business from other customers.

  • I happen to think that the Politico staffers were right to oppose their news organization granting its imprimatur to someone with Shapiro’s history of performative bigotry.

  • It could settle in for a long run, which a Tony imprimatur would help.

  • What makes CEOs think that putting their imprimatur on a political movement will increase public pressure on the two parties?

  • And yet, when he leaked the case to Congress, he carried the institutional imprimatur of the FBI in his attaché case.

  • From a Wall Street perspective, Buffett got privileged, and not level-playing-field, access as a payoff for his imprimatur.

  • The imprimatur of the Bank of England was plainly to be seen, and the huge figures stood out boldly.

  • Editions with a clerical "imprimatur" have been always published where laymen have been substituted for these.

  • They should be exceedingly careful not to give their imprimatur to books which are Modernist in any way.

  • There is any amount of fundamental teaching there and the imprimatur of thousands of good men to assure us of it.

  • I comply with the request with much pleasure, though I feel that the paper needs no imprimatur of mine.