"Green light"

"Green light" means to give official approval or permission to move forward with something.

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How "Green light" shows up at work

Lives in sentences like "waiting on the green light from legal." It signals that someone higher up controls the go/no-go, and that you are not that person yet.

Buzzword

We can proceed once we get the green light from the VP.

Plain English

We can proceed once the VP approves it.

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