Definition of "homologate" [ho•mol•o•gate]

• To approve, especially to confirm officially. (verb-transitive)

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• "The company doesn't need to do this in order to "homologate" the car--to get it approved for competition by selling a street-legal version, something that certain governing bodies of races require."
• "The test was only obnoxious to sincere fanatics; but among them must have been hundreds of persons who had no criminal designs, and merely deemed it a point of honour not to "homologate" any act of a Government which was corrupt, prelatic, and unholy."
• "'homologate' engines, which would have a given a rather different impression than the words chosen."