endorser

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun someone who expresses strong approval
noun a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security

From endorse + -er.

The endorsers are no longer liable." — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
He had plenty of property and family endorsers, however, and seldom failed to have a satisfactory interview with Meshach Milburn, who was now assisting him, at least once a quarter, to keep both principal and interest at home. — The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, George Alfred Townsend
So he knew (and better than she herself) the long story of the bills, small at first, bearing different names as endorsers, made out at long dates, and constantly renewed up to the day, when, gathering together all the protested bills, the shopkeeper had bidden his friend Vincart take in his own name all the necessary proceedings, not wishing to pass for a tiger with his fellow-citizens. — Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

subscriber, indorser, ratifier

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