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United Kingdom//ˌəʊˈkeɪ//
United States//ˌoʊˈkeɪ//
//əˈkeɪ//

Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

noun

1
Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.
We can start as soon as we get the OK.

Etymology

Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings. The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.

verb

1
To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.
I don't want to OK this amount of money.
I'll need to OK that with my boss.
In the data case, Judge John Bates has OK’d four depositions, while green-lighting other discovery requests from the challengers.
2
To confirm by activating a button marked OK.
Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.
When you OK the crop, the image size will be adjusted to match the front image resolution.

adjective

1
All right, acceptable, permitted.
Is it OK if I spend the night?
'Everything O.K. so far as I have found,' was the reassuring answer.
“A Summer Places”s simple thesis is that sexual promiscuity among the young is OK in general but it’s even more OK if the adults have a record of adultery and it’s even OKer than that if everybody has lots of money. But who wants to go slumming (even morally) in an armchair?
If someone has been transparent about their journey with GLP-1s, it’s OK to ask specific follow-up questions, she adds.
2
Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
3
Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine.
4
In good health or a good emotional state.
He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
Are you OK?
‘Are we OK? Is this—?’ She made a gesture to include their two bodies. / ‘This is the OKest I’ve been in years.’
In France, the French postal service La Poste provides a subscription service in which postal workers visit elderly subscribers to make sure they are okay, do not need anything, and provide brief social interaction.

adverb

1
Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.
The team did OK in the playoffs.

interjection

1
Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
I promise to give it back. – OK.
Let's meet again this afternoon. – OK.
Shut up! – OK, OK.
OK! I get it! Stop nagging me!
2
Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
3
Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
OK, I'm thinking of a number…
4
Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
You always do this to me! When we were at your mother’s, you said that… – OK, OK, …
5
Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.

proper noun

1
Variant of OklahomaAbbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.

noun

1
Karaoke.

Etymology

Possibly a shortening of Chinese 卡拉OK.

Forms

plural: OKs, OK's
comparative: more OK, OKer
superlative: most OK, OKest
past tense: OKed, OK'd, OK'ed
past participle: OKed, OK'd, OK'ed
present participle: OKing, OK'ing
third person singular: OKs, OK's

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