The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ACCLAIM
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More clues leading to the result ACCLAIM
- Be enthusiastic about account, one saying little about island
- An assertion from the Speaker offering approval
- Liberal point on according rave review
- Hail from a college – it’s what a professor may do
- Bill Clinton’s opening mail – fatuous praise
- Praise a demand in speech
- Approval from leader to admonish city council on trashy mail
- Applaud a goal, hugging Celtic’s outside left
- Chasing a double century, I hit out and get this
- Enthusiastically welcome every second of farcical object
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What does ACCLAIM mean?
ACCLAIM verb- To shout; to call out.
- To express great approval (for).
- To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
- To claim.
- To declare by acclamations.
- To elect to an office by having no opposition.
- An acclamation; a shout of applause.
- A claim.