OKD

Green-lighted

• Accepted

• Approved

• Approved the trade

• Approved, in headlines

• Approved, in papers

• Assented to

• Authorized

• Authorized, briefly

• Blessed

• Cleared, for short

• Decided to move forward on

• Didn't deny

• Endorsed

• Gave a thumbs-up

• Gave a thumbs-up to

• Gave approval to

• Gave one's blessing to

• Gave the go-ahead

• Gave the go-ahead to

• Gave the green light

• Gave the nod

• Gave the thumbs up

• Gave the thumbs-up to

• Green-lit

• Having a permit

• Initialed

• Initialed a request

• Initialed, maybe

• Initialed, perhaps

• Let pass

• Passed

• Passed on

• Permitted

• Put one's initials on, perhaps

• Ratified

• Rubber-stamped

• Sanctioned

• Signaled thumbs up

• Signed off on

• Signed one's inits. to