The phrase "approve an application" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of officially accepting or granting permission for a request or submission, typically in contexts like job applications, loan requests, or software submissions.
Example: "The committee will meet next week to approve an application for funding."
Alternatives: "grant an application" or "authorize an application."
The case arose from a vote cast by Michael A. Carrigan, a member of the Sparks City Council, to approve an application for a casino project for which his campaign manager had worked as a paid consultant.
Under the state Public Service Law's Article X review process, required of plants that would generate 80 megawatts or more, reviews by the state siting board should take 14 months -- 2 months to approve an application and 12 months to study and rule on the actual proposal.
Discounting the concerns of the state Board of Regents and local educators and parents, the State University of New York Board of Trustees voted last week to approve an application for a charter school in Roosevelt, which has one of the worst-performing public school systems on Long Island.
Scores of internal agency documents made available to The New York Times show that agency managers sought to approve an application by General Electric to allow the use of CT scans for colon cancer screenings over the repeated objections of agency scientists, who wanted the application rejected.
Highland councillors will be asked Thursday to approve an application to the Scottish government's Zero Waste Scotland fund to help it roll out the new collection.
In other words, if the FDA doesn't approve an application that was turned in by the deadline, simply because the queue is too long, that product must come off the shelves.
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, also approved an application from the District of Columbia.
Regulators informally rejected its request to become a bank holding company late last year, even while approving an application for such a conversion by GMAC.
The cases were filed starting in 1997 after the Food and Drug Administration approved an application by Barr Laboratories to sell a generic version of Coumadin.
If the Agriculture Department approves an application for grading by North Carolina growers, however, muscadines may begin appearing outside the South in a year or two.
