0 a small device with raised letters made of rubber, used for printing the date, name of an organization, etc. on documents --
1 to officially approve a decision or plan without thinking about it: --
2 a device used for printing with raised letters, numbers, or pictures made of an elastic substance such as rubber that you cover with ink and press against a surface, or the printed letters, etc., made in this way: --
4 to approve an idea, project, law, etc. without examining it carefully first: --
5 used to describe a group or organization that gives approval to ideas, projects, laws, etc. without examining them carefully first: --
a rubber-stamp legislature/parliament
The name is not printed but stamped with a rubber stamp—price approximately £5·50—and the annual cost is about that of answering this question.
They become purely bureaucratic machines, the members of which are able to do very little more than rubber stamp the recommendations of their officials.
It might be nothing more than a rubber stamp.
Will these commissioners, review board members—whatever we call them—rubber stamp?
They have assumed the status of little more than a rubber stamp.
A decision has been made—it has been signed, sealed and delivered, and we are supposed to put the rubber stamp on it tonight.
It is expected to be a rubber stamp.
It could not mean a great increase in price if the eggs were marked with a rubber stamp.
