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Definition of Rubber stamp

1. Noun. A stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand.

2. Noun. Routine authorization of an action without questions.

Definition of Rubber stamp

1. Adjective. (figuratively) Of a person, organisation, or process, making decisions or approving matters routinely or without real power, as ''rubber stamp politics'', ''a rubber stamp committee''. ¹

2. Noun. A piece of rubber or similar material with a design or text carved or molded for the purpose of transferring ink or dye to imprint that design on another object. ¹

3. Noun. (figuratively) A person or organisation who approves, routinely or as a formality, matters decided by some other person or organisation. ¹

4. Verb. (colloquial) to process, approve or decide matters routinely rather than through careful consideration ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubber Stamp

rubber dams rubber duck rubber duckies rubber ducks rubber ducky rubber eraser rubber johnny rubber match rubber pelvis rubber plant

rubber plants rubber ring rubber rings rubber shod clamp rubber stamp (current term) rubber stamped rubber stamping rubber stamps rubber tire rubber tissue

rubber tree rubber trees rubbered rubberier rubberiest rubberily rubbering rubberise rubberised

Literary usage of Rubber stamp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials by Theodore Roosevelt (1921)
"AN AMERICAN PEACE VERSUS A RUBBER-STAMP PEACE OCTOBER 22, 1918 IN Wallace's Farmer, a journal devoted to the interests of the fanner, and also to the ..."

2. Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials by Theodore Roosevelt (1921)
"AN AMERICAN PEACE VERSUS A RUBBER-STAMP PEACE OCTOBER 22, 1918 IN Wallace's Farmer, a journal devoted to the interests of the farmer, and also to the ..."

3. Prohibited Persons: Abuse of Undocumented Migrants, Asylum-Seekers, and by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1998)
"318 Rubber-Stamp Appeals Process Until quite recently, the Department of Home Affairs was unwilling to furnish reasons for denials of asylum claims. ..."

4. Rubber Hand Stamps and the Manipulation of Rubber: A Practical Treatise on by Thomas O'Conor Sloane (1890)
"(page 42) is the starting point in rubber stamp making. It is made for this purpose by the manufacturers. When the material is examined it looks like ..."

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