endorse

verb

• 1declare one’s public approval or support of:the report was endorsed by the college
• recommend (a product) in an advertisement: he earns more money endorsing sports clothes than playing football

• 2sign (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.
• write (a comment) on a document:the speed and accuracy achieved will be endorsed on the certificate

• 3(in the UK) mark (a driving licence) with the penalty points given as a punishment for a driving offence: his licence was endorsed with five points she’s had her licence endorsed

• 4 (endorse someone out) (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: a further 500,000 blacks had been endorsed out of urban areas under the pass laws