rule OK
To be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people.
Yet nationalism rules OK across most public management.
UK /ˌəʊˈkeɪ/ US /ˌoʊˈkeɪ/
intj 6adj 5name 3noun 2verb 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
general, young
VERB + OK
back, don't, dress, feeling, get, give, look, want
OK + NOUN
adults, amount, d, depositions, dialogue, i'll, lunch, playoffs
PREP.
in, on, with
ADV.
finally
Definitions
noun
1
Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.
We can start as soon as we get the OK.
verb
1
To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.
I don't want to OK this amount of money.
In the data case, Judge John Bates has OK’d four depositions, while green-lighting other discovery requests from the challengers.
2
To confirm by activating a button marked OK.
Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.
When you OK the crop, the image size will be adjusted to match the front image resolution.
adj
1
All right, acceptable, permitted.
Is it OK if I spend the night?
“A Summer Places”s simple thesis is that sexual promiscuity among the young is OK in general but it’s even more OK if the adults have a record of adultery and it’s even OKer than that if everybody has lots of money. But who wants to go slumming (even morally) in an armchair?
2
Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
I watched her pale complexion and her creaseless school uniform as she shyly introduced herself in front of the class, and decided she was no different from all the others in Saginomiya Girls’ High School: rather smart, from an OK family, at any rate OKer than mine, with enough time and money to allow her to muse over where to get the latest version of tamagochi or that tartan dress with an above-knee hemline advertised in Seventeen.
3
Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine.
4
In good health or a good emotional state.
He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
Are you OK?
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
are you OK
Asking if the listener is OK (e.g. not hurt).
you OK
Ellipsis of are you OK.
Example Bank
601
We can start as soon as we get the OK.
Wiktionary02
I don't want to OK this amount of money.
Wiktionary03
In the data case, Judge John Bates has OK’d four depositions, while green-lighting other discovery requests from the challengers.
Wiktionary04
Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.
Wiktionary05
Is it OK if I spend the night?
Wiktionary06
“A Summer Places”s simple thesis is that sexual promiscuity among the young is OK in general but it’s even more OK if the adults have a record of adultery and it’s even OKer than that if everybody has
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, ok is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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