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On approval   /ɑn əprˈuvəl/   Listen
On approval

adverb
1.
For examination (with an option to buy).





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"On approval" Quotes from Famous Books



... sadly, "it is too late now. I must try to bear up; but it is hard. If only this scheme had been started a few years earlier. If only I could have taken her on approval." ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 • Various
... sister. He began to understand. A horrible suspicion of the state of affairs came into Mr. Hoopdriver's head. Surely it had not come to THAT. He was a detective!—he would find out. How was it to be done? He began to submit sketches on approval to himself. It required an effort before he could walk into the Angel bar. "A lemonade and bitter, please," said ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells
... might be higher if I chose. Only I do things in rather a royal way, you see. I pay my staff five hundred a week more than I need. And I allow myself to be cheated.' He laughed suddenly. 'Costume department, for instance. I send charming costumes out on approval, and fetch them back in two days. And the pretty girls who have taken off the tickets, and worn the garments, and carefully restored the tickets, and lied to my carmen—the pretty girls imagine they have deceived me. They have merely amused me. My detective reports are ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... together and awkwardly rebound. Still open, on a rickety table in the corner, was that ponderous volume with an extremely limited circulation: The Publishers' Trade List Annual. Pencilled crosses here and there indicated books to be purchased, or at least sent on approval, to "customers ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed
... couple, and you adore me, and can't deny a thing I ask! There was a blouse in Bond Street this morning... Sweetest darling, wouldn't you like me to buy it to- morrow, and show me off in it to your friends? I told them to send it home on approval. I knew you couldn't bear to see your little girl unhappy for the sake of ...
— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


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