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green-light or green·light (grnlt)
tr.v. green-light·ed or green·light·ed, green-light·ing or green·light·ing, green-lights or green·lights Informal
To give permission to proceed with: "[He] commissioned the pilot that became 'Captain Kangaroo' and greenlighted the series" (Variety).


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Spin-offs are also all the rage this year, with CBS greenlighting an as yet untitled spin-off of its long-running ratings winner NCIS and the CW moving forward with its spin-off of the wildly popular Gossip Girl series.
An exception: the greenlighting of shovel-ready construction projects with the availability of federal Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars.
Hollywood studios are increasingly greenlighting projects in the belief that an actors' strike is unlikely to happen.
 
 
 
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