ALRIGHT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of alright in English

(Definition of alright from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of alright

alright
You know that it will be alright if you defend certain qualities.
If you could go on courses and work your way up the company, that would be alright.
This second move in itself is alright but does it really help?
We got off alright and went up a couple of escalators.
Quality of life assessments are alright provided one errs on the side of protecting the life of the child.
The majority of the children in 'non-singing group' stated that their voices sounded alright in both vocal behaviours.
He's lived on his own for nine years now, and he gets about alright.
Now obviously the argument is, good songwriters will rise to the top, and if you make good records you'll do alright.
Or the note seen on an essay that "all right is all right but alright is all wrong"?
He said there were technical problems to begin with, because the computers went into 'sleep mode' alright, but failed to 'wake up' again quickly enough.
In other words, he thought that it was perfectly alright if he gave a company tax exemption.
They find that contrary to what they had so often been led to believe would be the case,"it is not going to be alright".
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His figures are alright, but he is wrong.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Some put their heads in the sand like ostriches and think that everything will be alright.
Things that are alright, however, are not shown.
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Translations of alright

in Chinese (Traditional)
(all right的非標準拼寫)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(all right的非标准拼写)…
in Spanish
variante ortográfica de "all right":, bien…
in Portuguese
ortografia alternativa britânica de "all right", grafia incorreta de “all right”…
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in Italian
“all right” の別のつづり, “all right”の間違ったつづり…
tamam, pekâla, peki…
d’accord, C’est ça ?, Génial !…
variant ortogràfica de “all right”: bé…
in orde…
i orden, god nok, rask…
baik…
gut…
OK, bra, greit…
гаразд…
см. all right…
هجاء بريطاني آخر لكَلِمة all right…
v pořádku…
baik…
สบายดี, ดี (คำที่ไม่เป็นทางการ)…
ổn…
-, w porządku…
“all right”의 영국식 영어 철자법: 괜찮은, 좋아…
forma alternativa britannica di “all right”, bene, a posto…
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