indorsement Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)
    blurb; endorsement.
    • the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book
  2. noun a speech seconding a motion
    second; secondment; endorsement.
    • do I hear a second?
  3. noun formal and explicit approval
    sanction; countenance; endorsement; imprimatur; warrant.
    • a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement
  4. noun a signature that validates something
    endorsement.
    • the cashier would not cash the check without an endorsement
  5. noun the act of endorsing
    endorsement.
    • a star athlete can make a lot of money from endorsements

WordNet

In*dorse"ment noun
Etymology
From Indorse; cf. Endorsement.
Definitions
  1. The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.
  2. That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred. Story. Byles. Burrill.
  3. Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct.

Webster 1913