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rule OK

rule OK verb: to be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people.

Verb

rule OK (third-person singular simple present rules OK, present participle ruling OK, simple past and past participle ruled OK)

  1. (UK, idiomatic, informal, intransitive) To be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people.
    • Yet nationalism rules OK across most public management.2006 May 31, David Walker, “Beware leadership by syringe.”, in The Guardian

Forms of rule OK

third-person singular presentrules OK
present participleruling OK
past participleruled OK
pastruled OK

Questions about rule OK

What does rule OK mean?
Rule OK means to be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people.
What part of speech is rule OK?
Rule OK is a verb.
What is the past tense of rule OK?
The past tense of rule OK is ruled OK.

Words near rule OK in the dictionary

  1. rule of threes
  2. rule of thumb
  3. rule of tincture
  4. rule of two
  5. rule off
  6. rule OK
  7. rule on
  8. rule out
  9. rule set
  10. rule sets
  11. rule the day

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