"royal assent" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (government) The method by which a constitutional monarch (or a viceroy in a colony or dominion) formally approves and promulgates an act of his or her nation's parliament, thus making it a law. Wikipedia link: royal assent Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Government, Monarchy Translations (method by which a constitutional monarch approves a law): 御準 /御准 (yùzhǔn) (Chinese Mandarin), kuninkaan hyväksyntä (Finnish), sanción real [feminine] (Galician), pengesahan raja (Indonesian), perkenan diraja (Malay), consentimento real [masculine] (Portuguese), короле́вская са́нкция (korolévskaja sánkcija) [feminine] (Russian)
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