sanctioning

1. 1.

   implying sanction or serving to sanction

   “the guardian's duties were primarily sanctionative rather than administrative”

   Synonymssanctionative

   Similarenabling

Questions about sanctioning

What does sanctioning mean?

sanctioning means "implying sanction or serving to sanction".

How many syllables are in sanctioning?

sanctioning has 3 syllables: sanc-tio-ning. The stress falls on "sanc". In IPA it is /ˈsæŋkʃənɪŋ/.

What is another word for sanctioning?

Close synonyms include sanctionative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sanctioning a common word?

sanctioning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.