Definition of "approach" []

• To come near or nearer, as in space or time: Spring approaches. (verb-intransitive)
• Sports To make an approach, as in golf. (verb-intransitive)
• To come or go near or nearer to: approached the tunnel. (verb-transitive)
• To come close to, as in appearance, quality, or condition; approximate: The performance approaches perfection. (verb-transitive)
• To make a proposal or overtures to with a specific end in view: approached the administration for a raise. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Paintings from the National Gallery's collections, including a "Judith With the Head of Holofernes," attributed to Mantegna, and a portrait of a Venetian gentleman on which Giorgione and the young Titian both worked, at once suggest the currency of Tullio's distinctive approach in the early cinquecento and how that ­approach was formed."
• "Laura Ling's sister, Lisa Ling, told CNN Friday night that she feels the change in approach is significant, and could aid negotiations for the women's freedom."
• "The guiding principle of a spreading-oil-stain approach is that it allows the counterinsurgent force to concentrate in part of the country and then slowly pacify the rest, using time to substitute for numbers."