Question
Greenlight (i) Our camping trip got a
greenlight but with some caveats. (ii) Such statements from the officials give greenlight to the backlash from public. (iii) The government’s decision on new bill may provoke a greenlight from the public. In each of the following questions, a word has been used in sentences in THREE different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentences in which the usage of the word is CORRECT or APPROPRIATE.Solution
In (iii), backlash instead of greenlight is the correct usage. In the remaining sentences, greenlight has been used correctly meaning ‘go ahead’.
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