stamp

/stæmp/ noun [C]

Definition

PAPER (also postage stamp) › a small, official piece of paper that you buy and stick onto a letter or parcel before you post it

MARK › a tool for putting a special ink mark on something, or the mark made by it: a stamp in a passport

stamp of approval › official, public approval: The president has put his stamp of approval on the proposal.

(Definition of stamp noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

real or true

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