Indorse

[ɪn'dɔːs] or [ɪn'dɔrs]

Definition

(v. t.) To cover the back of; to load or burden.

(v. t.) To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.

(v. t.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.).

(v. t.) To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve; as, to indorse an opinion.

Edited by Barrett

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [Written also Endorse.] [1]. Superscribe, write on the back of.[2]. Sanction, approve, confirm, ratify, vouch for.

Checker: Roberta

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Sanction, approve, subscribe, accept

ANT:Protest, repudiate, cancel, abjure, renounce

Typist: Melville

Definition

See Endorse.

v.t. to write one's name on the back of: to assign by writing on the back of: to give one's sanction to: to lay on the back to load.—adj. Endors′able.—ns. Endorsēē′ the person to whom a bill &c. is assigned by endorsement; Endorse′ment act of endorsing: that which is written on a bill: sanction; Endors′er.

Checker: Osbert