plaudit
plaw dit
- n enthusiastic approval
he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd
- For his work of stabilizing the Japanese yen, his most valued plaudit came from a Japanese Cabinet minister, who reported: "The thieves are now stealing money instead of goods."
- On hand to receive this plaudit was Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the man who in 1968 ordered troops from Russia and four other Warsaw Pact nations to invade Czechoslovakia.
- Sarkozy later defended that plaudit, stressing that any possible vote-rigging was minimal in comparison to the groundswell of popular support for Putin.