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ruled OK

ruled OK is the simple past and past participle of rule OK.

Meaning of rule OK

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

Questions about ruled OK

What is ruled OK the simple past and past participle of?
Ruled OK is the simple past and past participle of rule OK.

Words near ruled OK in the dictionary

  1. rulebreakers
  2. rulebreaking
  3. ruled
  4. ruled in
  5. ruled off
  6. ruled OK
  7. ruled on
  8. ruled out
  9. ruled surface directrices
  10. ruled surface directrix
  11. ruled surface directrixes

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