Usually means: Authorization to proceed with project.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word green light:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. green-light, green light, the green light: Merriam-Webster
  2. green light, green light: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. green-light, green light: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. green light: Collins English Dictionary
  5. green light: Vocabulary.com
  6. green-light: Wordnik
  7. green-light: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. green-light, green light: Wiktionary
  9. green light: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. green light: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. green-light, green light, the green light: Dictionary.com
  12. Green Light (Bonnie Raitt album), Green Light (Breaking Bad), Green Light (Cliff Richard album), Green Light (John Legend song), Green Light (Lorde song), Green Light (Roll Deep song), Green Light (Valery Leontiev song), Green Light, Green-light, Green light: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. green light: Rhymezone
  14. green light: FreeDictionary.org
  15. green light: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. green-light, green light: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. green light: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. green-light: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Green light: Sports Definitions

(Note: See green_lighting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (green light)

noun:  A traffic light in its green state (indicating that vehicles may proceed).
noun:  (idiomatic) Approval, or permission to proceed.
noun:  (slang) A go-ahead to commit a crime, specifically to carry out a hit on someone (i.e. to kill).

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