English-German translations for green light

• grünes Licht das
  Wir brauchen grünes Licht für das Weißbuch. We need a green light for the White Paper.
  Bei der grünen Gentechnik müssen wir nun endlich grünes Licht geben. We must now at last give the green light to green genetic engineering.
  Es gibt auch andere bessere Signale, grünes Licht sozusagen. There are other, better signals too, a green light as it were.
• Grünlicht das

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