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名詞

green light (plural green lights)

1. A traffic light in its green state (indicating that vehicles may proceed).

   The drive home was much faster than usual; somehow we managed to hit every green light.

2. (idiomatic) Approval, or permission to proceed.

   Synonym: go

   We have a green light on the project. Work starts today.

   • 2020 May 20, “Network News: Class 345s finally able to serve Heathrow Airport”, in Rail, page 15:

     And Crossrail's Class 345 Aventra fleet finally has the green light to carry passengers to Heathrow Airport, after the Office of Rail and Road granted approval for the European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 overlay system.

3. (slang) A go-ahead to commit a crime, specifically to carry out a hit on someone (i.e. to kill).

   Yo man, I heard someone had put a green light out on you, so watch your back.

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語源

From green light.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɹiːnlaɪt/

動詞

greenlight (third-person singular simple present greenlights, present participle greenlighting, simple past and past participle greenlighted or greenlit)

1. (transitive, idiomatic, informal) To approve; to permit to proceed.
   • 2020 December 2, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Sunak focuses on jobs, infrastructure and 'levelling up'”, in Rail, page 7:

     Labour's Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds hit back at Sunak and said that his failure to greenlight major projects such as Northern Powerhouse Rail showed that government claims of levelling up the country were "not supported by the evidence".

   • 2024 August 11, Riley Bailey, Christina Harward, Angelica Evans, Grace Mappes, Davit Gasparyan, Frederick W. Kagan, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 17, 2024”, in Ukraine Project, The Institute for the Study of War:

     The United Kingdom (UK) is reportedly waiting for US approval before greenlighting Ukrainian forces to use UK-provided Storm Shadow missiles for long-range strikes against military targets in Russia.

2. (transitive, slang, idiomatic) To approve or requisition the harming or death of; to put a hit out on.

使用する際の注意点

• The past participle greenlit is now more common than greenlighted.

同意語

• (approve): allow, approve, give the go-ahead, give the green light, permit, rubber stamp, wave through

反意語

• redlight

派生語

参照

Further reading

• Stan Carey on "greenlit" (2023-08-16) at Language Log