English-French translations for green light

• feu vert
  Nous avons besoin de recevoir le feu vert pour le Livre blanc. We need a green light for the White Paper.
  Le Parlement a donné le feu vert final à ce projet. Parliament has given the financial green light.
  Donnons le feu vert au véhicule bosnien. Let us show the green light to the Bosnian vehicle.

Definition of green light

• A traffic light in its green state (indicating that vehicles may proceed
• Approval, or permission to proceed
• A go-ahead to commit a crime, specifically to carry out a hit on someone (i.e. to kill

Examples

• The drive home was much faster than usual; somehow we managed to hit every green light
• We have a green light on the project. Work starts today
• Yo man, I heard someone had put a green light out on you, so watch your back

Related words

• give someone the green light
• light green
• greenlight
• light-green