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Green Light

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Noun

1. go-ahead, green light

a signal to proceed

2. green light

permission to proceed with a project or to take action

Example Sentences:
'the gave the green light for construction to begin'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Green Light

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noun
1. 
a signal to go, esp a green traffic light
2. 
permission to proceed with a project
verb greenlight -lights, -lighting or -lighted (transitive)
3. 
to permit (a project, etc) to proceed

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Green Light

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Informal
permission or authorization to proceed with some undertaking, as a project to make a film from a proposed script
: usually in give (or get) the green light

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Green Light

see synonyms of green light
n.
1. The green-colored light that signals traffic to proceed.
2. Informal Permission to proceed.
tr.v. green·light·ed or green·lit (-lĭt′), green·light·ing, green·lights or green-light·ed or green-lit or green-light·ing or green-lights
Informal
To give permission to proceed with: "[He] commissioned the pilot that became 'Captain Kangaroo' and greenlighted the series" (Variety).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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