approach
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
approach/əˈprəʊtʃ/
▶verb
- 1 come near or nearer to in distance, time, or standard.
■ archaic bring nearer.
- 2 make an initial proposal to or request of.
- 3 start to deal with in a certain way.
- 1 a way of dealing with something.
- 2 an initial proposal or request.
- 3 the action of approaching.
■ a way leading to a place: the northern approaches to London.
– origin ME: from OFr. aprochier, aprocher, from eccles. L. appropiare ‘draw near’.
'approach' also found in these Oxford entries:
access
- accost
- adit
- advance
- approach shot
- atomism
- avenue
- back
- bear
- beckon
- bedside
- behaviouralism
- bell
- bum-bailiff
- close
- Conservative Judaism
- critical theory
- defence
- diverge
- draw
- envelope
- evening
- gestalt therapy
- go-around
- greet
- harbinger
- hard power
- headhunt
- high road
- importune
- instrumentalism
- lateral thinking
- limit
- longshore drift
- near
- neoconservative
- neo-Impressionism
- notional
- oncoming
- organization
- overture
- paradigm shift
- pernickety
- phenomenology
- pitch
- posture
- practical
- pragmatism
- proselyte
