secret approval

1. 1.

   (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing

   Synonymsconnivancetacit consent

   Broaderapproval

   law

Questions about secret approval

What does secret approval mean?

secret approval means "(law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing".

What is another word for secret approval?

Close synonyms include connivance, tacit consent. 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 secret approval a common word?

secret approval 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.