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rules OK

rules OK is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 rules OK

What is rules OK the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rules OK is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rule OK.

Words near rules OK in the dictionary

  1. rules of the game
  2. rules of the road
  3. rules of thumb
  4. rules off
  5. rules official
  6. rules OK
  7. rules on
  8. rules out
  9. rules the day
  10. rules the roost
  11. rules the school

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rules OK (page history and authors); rule OK (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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