0 (especially of governments or organizations) to make an agreement official:
1 (esp. of governments or organizations) to agree in writing to a set of rules, or to officially approve a decision or plan:
2 to vote on a decision or sign a written agreement to make it official:
Some war-ravaged countries are reluctant to ratify the international conventions, because of the strategic military and political benefits of recruiting children in armed conflicts.
In order to discredit modern architecture, he needed to ratify its antithesis.
Regulation, however comprehensive and widely ratified and implemented, is unlikely to prove highly successful since it is prone to enforcement deficit.
That law protected the brotherhoods' insurance funds and established national mediation mechanisms that ratified the brotherhoods' industrial position.
Dozens of international environmental treaties have been negotiated and ratified.
By 2001, 30 member states had signed and ratified the document.
Some of the time, they take up the adult's correction and, in repeating it, ratify the adult interpretation as correct.
It was she who advanced the steps that he should take in order to legally ratify the young couple's love for one another.
