Sanction

Definition

sanction /'sæŋkʃn/ n ၁။ [U] ( fml ) ခြင့္ျပဳမိန္႔။ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္။ The book was translated without the sanction of the author. ❍ The conference gave its official sanction to the change of policy. ၂။ [C] ~ (against sth) (ဥပေဒ၊ စည္းကမ္းတို႔ကို ေလးစားလိုက္နာေစေသာ)အေရးယူမႈ။ the need for effective sanctions against computer hacking. ၃။ [C usu pl ] ~ (against sb) (ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ဥပေဒ၊ စည္းကမ္းတို႔ကို လိုက္နာေစရန္ ႏိုင္ငံတစ္ခုခ်င္းအေပၚ)အေရးယူမႈ။ apply/tighten/lift economic sanctions. v သေဘာတူသည္။ ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ They won't sanction a further cut in interest rates.

Examples

1. Economic/trade/international sanctions
2. [impose sanctions] : The Council wanted to impose sanctions against the countries involved in the dispute.
3. [lift sanctions] : Talks continue over the conditions for lifting sanctions.
4. War was declared without the sanction of parliament.
5. Only the medical council can apply a sanction against a doctor.