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give someone/thing the nod1Select or approve someone or something: they banned one book but gave the other the nod...- The Abbotstown racecourse project, which looked dead in the water when Dundalk was given the nod for Ireland's first all-weather track, is deliberately being kept alive by Horse Racing Ireland.
- If Glasgow is given the nod over Edinburgh, it makes it more likely that tourists from eastern Scotland will have to continue travelling through to the west of Scotland for many destinations and chartered flights.
- So far, things are looking distinctly Brokeback Mountain coloured, after the film was given the nod by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Golden Globes and the Producers Guild Of America.
Synonyms select, choose, pick, go for; British cap approve, agree to, sanction, ratify, endorse, say yes to, give one's approval to, rubber-stamp informal give something the go-ahead, give something the green light, OK, give something the OK, give something the thumbs up 2Give someone a signal: just give me the nod...- But until you are given the nod, there is nothing you can do.
- But then, about 20-30 minutes later (or however long it was - time really had no meaning to me by this stage), we were given the nod.
- Mr Oxley said that £30,000 was already in the bank and the council had been given the nod that other funding was on the way to make up the rest of the costs.
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