green wave in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "green waves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "green wave (plural green waves)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A purposefully designed timing of a series of traffic lights to produce a green light for cars travelling at the correct speed as they arrive at the lights."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "timing",
          "timing"
        ],
        [
          "traffic light",
          "traffic light"
        ],
        [
          "green light",
          "green light"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "grøn bølge"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
          "word": "vihreä aalto"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "grüne Welle"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zielona fala"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zeleni val"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "onda verde"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "grön våg"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "green wave"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "green waves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "green wave (plural green waves)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A purposefully designed timing of a series of traffic lights to produce a green light for cars travelling at the correct speed as they arrive at the lights."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "timing",
          "timing"
        ],
        [
          "traffic light",
          "traffic light"
        ],
        [
          "green light",
          "green light"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grøn bølge"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
      "word": "vihreä aalto"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grüne Welle"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zielona fala"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zeleni val"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "onda verde"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "way of timing traffic lights",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grön våg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "green wave"
}

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"green wave" meaning in English

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