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ALL CLEAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Permission to proceed because obstacles have been removed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("all clear" is a kind of...):
permission (approval to do something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A signal (usually a siren) that danger is over
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("all clear" is a kind of...):
sign; signal; signaling (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)
Context examples:
Is that all clear?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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