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rubber-stamp

rubber-stamp is the alternative form of rubber stamp.

Meaning of rubber stamp

Noun

rubber stamp (plural rubber stamps)

  1. (literally) A piece of rubber or similar material with a design or text carved or molded for the purpose of transferring ink or dye to imprint that design on another object.
    • The library had a rubber stamp to imprint the due date.
  2. (figuratively) A person or organization that approves, routinely or as a formality, matters decided by some other person or organization.
    • During the Roman principate, the senate largely served as a rubber stamp for the emperor.

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Forms of rubber-stamp

Noun
pluralrubber-stamps
Verb
third-person singular presentrubber-stamps
present participlerubber-stamping
past participlerubber-stamped
pastrubber-stamped

Questions about rubber-stamp

What is rubber-stamp the alternative form of?
Rubber-stamp is the alternative form of rubber stamp.

Words near rubber-stamp in the dictionary

  1. rubber-hose
  2. rubber-hose cryptanalysis
  3. rubber-necker
  4. rubber-neckers
  5. rubber-soled
  6. rubber-stamp
  7. rubber-stamped
  8. rubber-stamping
  9. rubber-stamps
  10. rubberband
  11. rubberbanded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rubber-stamp (page history and authors); rubber stamp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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