Usually means: Penalty for violating rules or laws.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. sanction: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sanction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sanction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sanction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sanction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sanction, sanction: Wordnik
  7. sanction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sanction: Wiktionary
  9. sanction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sanction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sanction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sanction: Dictionary.com
  13. sanction (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sanction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sanction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sanction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sanction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sanction: Rhymezone
  19. sanction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sanction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sanction: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. sanction: Free Dictionary
  23. sanction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sanction: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Sanction: The Word Detective
  26. sanction: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. sanction: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. sanction: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. sanction: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sanction: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Sanction: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. sanction: Legal dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sanction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sanction: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See sanctionable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
noun:  A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
noun:  A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying any of the above.
verb:  (transitive) To ratify; to make valid.
verb:  (transitive) To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
verb:  (transitive) To penalize (a state etc.) with sanctions.

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