According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
RATIFY
sign, ratify
(verb) approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; “All parties ratified the peace treaty”; “Have you signed your contract yet?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
ratify (third-person singular simple present ratifies, present participle ratifying, simple past and past participle ratified)
(transitive) To give formal consent to; make officially valid, sign off on.
Synonyms
• (give formal consent to): approve
Source: Wiktionary
Rat"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ratified; p. pr. & vb. n. Ratifying.] Etym: [F. ratifier, fr. L. ratus fixed by calculation, firm, valid + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Rate, n., and -fy.]
Definition: To approve and sanction; to make valid; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination. It is impossible for the divine power to set a seal to a lie by ratifying an imposture with such a miracle. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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