Meaning of endorse out | Babel Free

Definitions

To expel (someone) from an area because he or she lacks official permission to be there.

South-Africa

Examples

“And when he came back to get the permit renewed, Du Toit said no, and endorsed him out.”

“But his attendance there fell apart, first when his father, a worker in a motor-tyre factory, was endorsed out of the town on an Order under the Urban Areas Act.”

“Labor bureaus became the chief agencies of identifying and weeding out "idle" and "undesirable" Africans by endorsing them out of the urban areas, and, thus, force them to re-settle in the bantustans.”

“I was very close to this, because I was dealing with people, giving them houses and so on: and, in most cases, endorsing them out of Cape Town if they didn't have the proper particulars.”

“This expulsion measure was used in 1931 against the Communist Party branch in Durban, which was at the forefront of the burning of passes: Gana Makabeni was endorsed out 'to his home in the Transkei'.”

CEFR level