Sanction
Sanction noun - The approval by someone in authority for the doing of something.
Usage example: you cannot make a student video without your faculty advisor's sanction of its subject matter prior to shooting
Tolerance and sanction are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tolerance" instead a noun "Sanction".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- approval and sanction
- approval and tolerance
- acceptance and sanction
- acceptance and tolerance
- dispensation and sanction
- dispensation and tolerance
- leave and sanction
- leave and tolerance
- allowance and sanction
- allowance and tolerance
- assent and sanction
- assent and tolerance
- permit and sanction
- permit and tolerance
How words are described
Cite this Source
Tolerance and Sanction. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 12, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/sanction/tolerance
Sanction & Tolerance. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/sanction/tolerance>.
Tolerance or Sanction. 2016. Accessed August 12, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/sanction/tolerance.
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