rule OK in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rules OK",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruling OK",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruled OK",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruled OK",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "2006 May 31, David Walker, “Beware leadership by syringe.”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Yet nationalism rules OK across most public management.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people."
      ],
      "id": "en-rule_OK-en-verb-zsbJeiWO",
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        [
          "popularly",
          "popularly"
        ],
        [
          "accepted",
          "accepted"
        ],
        [
          "supported",
          "supported"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, British, informal) To be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
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      "audio": "En-au-rule OK.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/En-au-rule_OK.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rule OK"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rules OK",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruling OK",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruled OK",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ruled OK",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "rule OK (third-person singular simple present rules OK, present participle ruling OK, simple past and past participle ruled OK)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
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        "English multiword terms",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 May 31, David Walker, “Beware leadership by syringe.”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Yet nationalism rules OK across most public management.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "popularly",
          "popularly"
        ],
        [
          "accepted",
          "accepted"
        ],
        [
          "supported",
          "supported"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, British, informal) To be popularly accepted, or supported by the general majority of people."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "audio": "En-au-rule OK.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/62/En-au-rule_OK.ogg/En-au-rule_OK.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/En-au-rule_OK.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rule OK"
}

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"rule OK" meaning in English

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