0 official permission to do something that is given by a person or group in a position of power: --
1 official approval of something or permission to do something: --
Some of the largest investment banks also provide an imprimatur of business respectability on the borrower.
2 official permission to publish a book: --
The Guide was published with the imprimatur of the U.S. architectural industry group.
My preference would be for legislation, which would mean that the rules which the courts applied would carry the imprimatur of democratic approval.
Listing is an imprimatur but there is nothing exclusive about it; it is an additional support.
You must give your imprimatur also to our scheme.
When it is as good a clause as this, we should put our imprimatur on it.
For example, every piece of legislation coming before us now has that famous imprimatur that it is human rights compliant.
The wording "it shall be lawful" gives an imprimatur of legality to the act of picketing.
It is helpful to have the vice-president to add his imprimatur to that quotation.
Is it to be debated for all time because it has received that imprimatur?
