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say it: rat-uh-fuh-KAY-shuhn
ratification is a noun meaning "making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it". It is pronounced /ˌɹætəfəˈkeɪʃən/ — rat-uh-fuh-KAY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it
“the ratification of the treaty”
“confirmation of the appointment”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ratification come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.