cautionner
Meanings
Verb
1. to post bail (law)
2. to support, condone, underwrite, endorse
Examples5
Comment peuvent-ils cautionner ça ?
How can they condone this?
Il ne cautionne pas la violence.
He doesn't condone violence.
Yanni ne cautionne pas la violence.
Yanni doesn't condone violence.
Je ne peux pas cautionner ton comportement.
I cannot support your conduct.
Soutenir un criminel, c'est cautionner le crime.
To support a criminal is to condone crime.