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Definition of A-OK in English: A-OK(also A-okay) adjective eɪəʊˈkeɪˈeɪ ˌoʊ ˈkeɪ North American informal In good order or condition; all right. Example sentencesExamples - You've chaired three committees, so over time have you seen a pattern of repeated flaws in the systems, repeated assurances that the systems are A-OK?
- High-intensity sports like soccer, basketball, and sprinting are A-OK.
- Which means that all the corporations that had the foresight to profit early from their disloyalty, depriving the government of $70 billion a year, are A-okay.
- The university administration argues that participation rates in Ontario and Alberta - two of the several provinces that experienced massive increases over the past ten years or so - haven't gone down, proving everything is A-okay.
- Nevertheless, to be able to say that the power system is A-OK is a big step for this engineering team, as they try to figure out what has gone wrong.
- Now, everyone thinks you have a disease, when in real life, you're 100% A-OK.
- Wide open highways on which I can drive 90 are A-okay, on the other hand.
- Since June 14, everything in Cleveland is A-OK.
- I got a clean bill of health from the doctors and everything is A-OK.
- This guy might be one A-OK fellow.
- The pastor of the church we serve at is A-OK with it; he still supports me and can't see what the big deal is.
- This in itself is A-OK, but such countries run the risk of being sandbagged by protectionist tariffs initiated by neighbouring nations.
- Another vote for tasteful hair coloring being A-OK!
- ‘On the surface everything is A-OK,’ says Marshall Wittman, a conservative analyst at the Hudson Institute.
- Mortgages are bought and sold, debt is traded and passed down the line, the ‘carry trade’ keeps racking up profits and the numbers continue being shuffled to demonstrate that everything is A-OK.
- So the account or the tax preparer would often help out in terms of structuring a return in order to look as though it was A-OK.
- If Trisha doesn't say anything, her boss will assume everything's A-OK.
- All eye/forehead related stuff is A-OK, thanks for asking.
- Cheerleaders and crack drumlines would be A-OK with 99.4 percent of the halftime audience.
- ‘Yeah,’ I reply, straightening up and hastily brushing brownie crumbs off the front of my shirt, ‘I'm A-okay.’
adverb eɪəʊˈkeɪˈeɪ ˌoʊ ˈkeɪ North American informal In a good manner or way; all right. Example sentencesExamples - If they used property law, rather than a blanket prohibition on movement or travel, then everything would be A-OK…
- So, the government robbing us for a service they do not provide is A-OK, but a company charging money for the sale of their own property is an ‘abuse of market power’.
- But if you tell them you spent the money on consultants, that's A-okay.
- But he does manage to work in the name ‘Wily Mo Pena,’ which is A-OK by us.
- I mean, I'd have felt a bit guilty for ordering a sandwich with a pile of fatty, fried bacon, but somehow ordering a club sandwich makes it feel A-OK!
- Then they put a pop beat behind it and everything's A-OK?
- I came home too sick to eat (be shocked now!) because I was so worried about Ozzy but finally figured out the problem so that's A-okay.
- The more he tries to project that everything is just A-OK, the more ridiculous he looks.
- Took care of some spots that have been water collection areas and all should be A-OK moving forward.
- And second excepting me to be happy A-OK about the whole thing!
- Global corporations and the mental pollution of advertising are A-OK when they help to sell his books.
- However, steam comes out of the manholes in the street, and any city that offers this feature is automatically A-OK in my book.
- Assuming his back checks out A-OK, he will fan the most flames in the Hot Stove League.
- Which, to go full circle for a moment, is one of the reasons college hoops is doing A-OK.
- We had over an inch of rain Monday night but we stuck to the trails that drain fast and things were A-OK.
Origin 1960s (originally an astronauts' term): from a ll systems OK. Rhymes affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea Definition of A-OK in US English: A-OK(also A-okay) adjectiveˈeɪ ˌoʊ ˈkeɪ North American informal In good order or condition; all right. the pictures look A-OK to me Example sentencesExamples - I got a clean bill of health from the doctors and everything is A-OK.
- All eye/forehead related stuff is A-OK, thanks for asking.
- Mortgages are bought and sold, debt is traded and passed down the line, the ‘carry trade’ keeps racking up profits and the numbers continue being shuffled to demonstrate that everything is A-OK.
- You've chaired three committees, so over time have you seen a pattern of repeated flaws in the systems, repeated assurances that the systems are A-OK?
- ‘On the surface everything is A-OK,’ says Marshall Wittman, a conservative analyst at the Hudson Institute.
- Wide open highways on which I can drive 90 are A-okay, on the other hand.
- High-intensity sports like soccer, basketball, and sprinting are A-OK.
- Nevertheless, to be able to say that the power system is A-OK is a big step for this engineering team, as they try to figure out what has gone wrong.
- The university administration argues that participation rates in Ontario and Alberta - two of the several provinces that experienced massive increases over the past ten years or so - haven't gone down, proving everything is A-okay.
- Which means that all the corporations that had the foresight to profit early from their disloyalty, depriving the government of $70 billion a year, are A-okay.
- Another vote for tasteful hair coloring being A-OK!
- This guy might be one A-OK fellow.
- Since June 14, everything in Cleveland is A-OK.
- The pastor of the church we serve at is A-OK with it; he still supports me and can't see what the big deal is.
- Cheerleaders and crack drumlines would be A-OK with 99.4 percent of the halftime audience.
- If Trisha doesn't say anything, her boss will assume everything's A-OK.
- ‘Yeah,’ I reply, straightening up and hastily brushing brownie crumbs off the front of my shirt, ‘I'm A-okay.’
- Now, everyone thinks you have a disease, when in real life, you're 100% A-OK.
- So the account or the tax preparer would often help out in terms of structuring a return in order to look as though it was A-OK.
- This in itself is A-OK, but such countries run the risk of being sandbagged by protectionist tariffs initiated by neighbouring nations.
adverbˈeɪ ˌoʊ ˈkeɪ North American informal In a good manner or way; all right. Example sentencesExamples - Assuming his back checks out A-OK, he will fan the most flames in the Hot Stove League.
- The more he tries to project that everything is just A-OK, the more ridiculous he looks.
- So, the government robbing us for a service they do not provide is A-OK, but a company charging money for the sale of their own property is an ‘abuse of market power’.
- And second excepting me to be happy A-OK about the whole thing!
- If they used property law, rather than a blanket prohibition on movement or travel, then everything would be A-OK…
- Took care of some spots that have been water collection areas and all should be A-OK moving forward.
- Global corporations and the mental pollution of advertising are A-OK when they help to sell his books.
- I mean, I'd have felt a bit guilty for ordering a sandwich with a pile of fatty, fried bacon, but somehow ordering a club sandwich makes it feel A-OK!
- But if you tell them you spent the money on consultants, that's A-okay.
- But he does manage to work in the name ‘Wily Mo Pena,’ which is A-OK by us.
- I came home too sick to eat (be shocked now!) because I was so worried about Ozzy but finally figured out the problem so that's A-okay.
- However, steam comes out of the manholes in the street, and any city that offers this feature is automatically A-OK in my book.
- Which, to go full circle for a moment, is one of the reasons college hoops is doing A-OK.
- Then they put a pop beat behind it and everything's A-OK?
- We had over an inch of rain Monday night but we stuck to the trails that drain fast and things were A-OK.
Origin 1960s (originally an astronauts' term): from a ll systems OK. |