# endorse

Pronunciation: US say "in-DAWRS" /ɪnˈdɔɹs/; say "in-DAWS" UK /ɪnˈdɔːs/, AUS /ɪnˈdoːs/

## Verb

1. To express support or approval for someone or something, especially in an official or public way.
   - Simple: To publicly say that you support a person, product, or idea.
   - _The newspaper chose to endorse the incumbent mayor before the election._
   - _Major medical groups have endorsed the updated vaccination guidelines._
2. To sign the back of a check or other negotiable instrument, either to cash it or to transfer it to someone else.
   - Simple: To sign your name on the back of a check before you cash it or give 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._
3. To penalize someone for a traffic offense by recording points on their driving license. *(UK)*
   - Simple: To add penalty points to someone's driving license after a road traffic offense.
   - _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._
4. To report having a particular symptom, or to describe one, as when a patient answers a clinician's questions.
   - Simple: To tell a doctor that you have a certain symptom.
   - _During the interview, the patient endorsed nausea but denied any dizziness._
   - _Patients with depression often endorse poor sleep and low energy._

## Noun

5. A narrow vertical band on a shield, a smaller version of the pale, usually appearing in pairs that flank a central pale.
   - Simple: A narrow up-and-down band on a coat of arms, often placed in pairs next to a wider band.
   - _The herald drew an endorse close beside the pale to balance the design._
   - _The family arms displayed a pale between two narrow endorses._

## Origin

The word came into Middle English as endosse from Old French endosser ("to put on the back"), which goes back to Latin dossum, a form of dorsum ("back"), the same root behind dorsal. The Latin had dropped the 'r', but it was later re-introduced into English through Medieval Latin indorsare, which had kept it.

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