endorse
verb
[ ɪnˈdɔːs ]
• declare one's public approval or support of.
• "the report was endorsed by the college"
• sign (a cheque or bill of exchange) on the back to make it payable to someone other than the stated payee or to accept responsibility for paying it.
Similar:
countersign,
sign on the back,
initial,
autograph,
put one's mark on,
inscribe,
superscribe,
witness,
validate,
underwrite,
side-sign,
chirographate,
• (in the UK) mark (a driving licence) with the penalty points given as a punishment for a driving offence.
• "his licence was endorsed with five points"
• (in South Africa under apartheid) order a black person to leave an urban area for failing to meet certain requirements of the Native Laws Amendment Act.
• "a further 500,000 had been endorsed out of urban areas under the pass laws"
Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘write on the back of’; formerly also as indorse ): from medieval Latin indorsare, from Latin in- ‘in, on’ + dorsum ‘back’.
