Also means
to ratify
Usage Note
Refrendar means to countersign an official document to validate it, or to ratify a decision by a second authority. In politics it often describes a minister refrendando a royal decree. It differs from referéndum (a public vote): the noun refrendo refers only to an official counter-signature, not a popular referendum.
Examples
"El ministro refrendó el decreto presidencial."
Natural Translation
The minister countersigned the presidential decree.

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