rule OK

verb

To be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people.

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Meanings

verbrule OK (third-person singular simple present rules OK, present participle ruling OK, simple past and past participle ruled OK)

present singular third person rules OK · participle present ruling OK · participle past ruled OK · past ruled OK

  1. UKidiomaticinformalintransitiveTo be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people.

    Yet nationalism rules OK across most public management.

    2006 May 31, David Walker, “Beware leadership by syringe.”, in The Guardian
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APA

rule OK. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rule%20OK

MLA

“rule OK.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rule%20OK. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rule OK,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rule%20OK.

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