[ɛnˈdɔːs], (Verb)

Definitions:
- declare one's public approval or support of
(e.g: the report was endorsed by the college)

- sign (a cheque or bill of exchange) on the back to make it payable to someone other than the stated payee or to accept responsibility for paying it

- (in the UK) mark (a driving licence) with the penalty points given as a punishment for a driving offence
(e.g: his licence was endorsed with five points)

- (in South Africa under apartheid) order a black person to leave an urban area for failing to meet certain requirements of the Native Laws Amendment Act
(e.g: a further 500,000 had been endorsed out of urban areas under the pass laws)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘write on the back of’; formerly also as indorse): from medieval Latin indorsare, from Latin in- ‘in, on’ + dorsum ‘back’