Usually means: Approve or allow behavior tacitly.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. condone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. condone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. condone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. condone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. condone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Condone, condone: Wordnik
  7. condone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. condone: Wiktionary
  9. condone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. condone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. condone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. condone: Dictionary.com
  13. condone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. condone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Condone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. condone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. condone: Rhymezone
  18. condone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. condone: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. condone: Free Dictionary
  21. condone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. condone: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. condone: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. condone: Law.com Dictionary
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  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. condone: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. condone: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See condonable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
verb:  (transitive) To allow, accept or permit (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
verb:  (transitive, law) To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense).

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