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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sanctionative is an adjective meaning "implying sanction or serving to sanction". It carries one recorded sense.
implying sanction or serving to sanction
“the guardian's duties were primarily sanctionative rather than administrative”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sanctionative come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.