imprimatur

An official license or approval to publish; a person's acceptance or guarantee that something is of a good standard.

• (no common derivatives)

• give one's imprimatur
• bear the imprimatur of
• official imprimatur
• personal imprimatur

1. 1.The project cannot proceed without the CEO's imprimatur. (official approval)
2. 2.The endorsement bore the imprimatur of the nation's most respected scientific body. (authoritative stamp of approval)

• approval/əˈpruːvəl/— positive assessment
• sanction/ˈsæŋkʃən/— official permission
• endorsement/ɪnˈdɔːsmənt/— public support

from Latin "imprimatur" = let it be printed — "imprimere" = to impress/print — originally the Catholic Church's permission to publish a book