endorse

Formsendorses, endorsing, endorsed

Pluralendorses

1. 1
   verbtransitive

   To express support or approval for someone or something, especially in an official or public way.

   The newspaper chose to endorse the incumbent mayor before the election.

   Major medical groups have endorsed the updated vaccination guidelines.

   Similarsupport, back, approve, champion, recommend

   Oppositeoppose, reject, condemn, denounce

2. 2
   verbtransitive

   To sign the back of a check or other negotiable instrument, either to cash it or to transfer it to someone else.

   You must endorse the check on the back before the bank will accept it.

   He endorsed the money order over to his landlord.

   Similarsign, countersign

   Note

   Here the word still means what its roots say. It comes from Old French endosser, "to put on the back," from Latin dorsum, the same "back" behind dorsal. The signature on the reverse can do more than cash the instrument. It can transfer rights in it to a named party or to the bearer, or restrict how it may be negotiated further. The idiom is to endorse something over to someone.

3. 3
   verbUKtransitive

   To penalize someone for a traffic offense by recording points on their driving license.

   Magistrates can endorse a driving license with up to six points for using a mobile phone at the wheel.

   The court endorsed his license with three points following the offense.

   Note

   A British legal use in which the court, not the driver, does the endorsing. The object is the license or driving record, and the points follow with. The passive is common. In Nettleship v Weston, a driver convicted by the Sheffield Magistrates in 1968 was fined £10 and had her license endorsed. Those points count toward possible disqualification from driving for a fixed period.

4. 4
   verbtransitive

   To report having a particular symptom, or to describe one, as when a patient answers a clinician's questions.

   During the interview, the patient endorsed nausea but denied any dizziness.

   Patients with depression often endorse poor sleep and low energy.

   Similarreport

   Oppositedeny

   Note

   Clinical shorthand from history-taking, where the patient, not the clinician, does the endorsing. A patient endorses poor sleep by saying yes to it, and the natural counterpart is denied, as in endorsed nausea but denied dizziness. Don't read it as the approval sense: nothing is being approved, and endorsing a symptom only means affirming that one has it.

5. 5
   nouncountable

   A narrow vertical band on a shield, a smaller version of the pale, usually appearing in pairs that flank a central pale.

   The herald drew an endorse close beside the pale to balance the design.

   The family arms displayed a pale between two narrow endorses.

   Note

   One of the pale's narrow diminutives in heraldry, and a charge that rarely stands alone. When a pair of them flanks a pale, blazon describes the pale itself as endorsed, so the noun and the adjective name one arrangement from opposite sides. The plural is endorses, as in a pale between two endorses.

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