OK

We can start as soon as we get the OK.

Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

OKs (plural)
OK's (plural)
O.K. (alternative)
o.k. (alternative)
ok (alternative)
okay (alternative)
O. K. (alternative)
o. k. (alternative)
okeh (alternative)
okey (alternative)
okie (alternative)

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.

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OK

I don't want to OK this amount of money.

(transitive) To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.

Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.

2001, Mike Collins, Pro Tools: Practical Recording, Editing and Mixing for Music Production:

When you OK the crop, the image size will be adjusted to match the front image resolution.

2008, Martin Evening, Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers:

(transitive, computing) To confirm by activating a button marked OK.

en-verb

OK (third-person singular simple present OKs or OK's, present participle OKing or OK'ing, simple past and past participle OKed or OK'd)

OKs (present singular third-person)
OK's (present singular third-person)
OKing (participle present)
OK'ing (participle present)
OKed (participle past)
OKed (past)
OK'd (participle past)
OK'd (past)
O.K. (alternative)
o.k. (alternative)
ok (alternative)
okay (alternative)
O. K. (alternative)
o. k. (alternative)
okeh (alternative)
okey (alternative)
okie (alternative)

unk

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OK

Is it OK if I spend the night?

The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.

One of us must marry well. Meg didn't, Jo won't, Beth can't yet, so I shall, and make everything okay all round.

1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], part second, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.

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.

2012, Roni Jay, The 10 Most Important Things You Can Do For Your Children:

Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.

He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.

Are you OK?

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.

2022 October 25, L. J. Shrum, Elena Fumagalli, Tina M. Lowrey, “Coping with loneliness through consumption”, in Journal of Consumer Psychology, volume 33, number 2, →DOI, page 452:

In good health or a good emotional state.

en-adj

OK (comparative more OK, superlative most OK)

more OK (comparative)
most OK (superlative)
O.K. (alternative)
o.k. (alternative)
ok (alternative)
okay (alternative)
O. K. (alternative)
o. k. (alternative)
okeh (alternative)
okey (alternative)
okie (alternative)

ill

antonym(s) of “in good health or a good emotional state”

ደህና

in good health or in a good emotional state

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OK

The team did OK in the playoffs.

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OK

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!

Come by this afternoon. — Okay.
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2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

(computing) Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.

OK, I'm thinking of a number…

Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.

You always do this to me! When we were at your mother’s, you said that… – OK, OK, …

Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.

Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.

rồi

acknowledges an item in a list of requests, such as when taking an order

OK

dismissal of a dialog box or confirmation of a prompt

طَيِّب

introduction of a sentence in order to draw attention

→ Afrikaans: oukei

desc

→ Arabic: أُوكِي (ʔokey), أُوكَي (ʔukay)

→ Cantonese: OK (ou1 kei1), O (ou1)

→ Danish: okay, OK

→ Dutch: oké

→ Esperanto: okej

→ Estonian: okei

→ Finnish: okei

→ French: okay

→ German: okay

→ Hebrew: אוקי (okéy)

→ Hindi: ओके (oke)

→ Hungarian: oké

→ Indonesian: oke

→ Icelandic: ókei

→ Italian: ok

→ Japanese: OK (ōkē), オーケー (ōkē)

→ Korean: OK (okei), 오케이 (okei)

→ Macedonian: океј (okej)

→ Malay: okey

→ Mandarin: OK (ōukèi, ōukēi)

→ Polish: okej

→ Portuguese: OK

→ Russian: окей (okej)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: океј

Latin script: okej

→ Spanish: okay, okey

→ Swedish: okej

→ Thai: โอเค (oo-kee)

→ Turkish: okey

→ Ukrainian: окей (okej)

→ West Frisian: okee

→ Yiddish: אָקיי (okey)

unk

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O.K. (alternative)
o.k. (alternative)
ok (alternative)
okay (alternative)
O. K. (alternative)
o. k. (alternative)
okeh (alternative)
okey (alternative)
okie (alternative)


OK

United States of America
United States of America

United States postal abbreviation for Oklahoma, a state of the United States of America.

OK. (alternative)
Ok. (alternative)
Ok (alternative)