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  • green flag
    green flag
    noun
    (in automobile racing) a green-colored flag that is used to signal the start of a race.
  • Green Flag
    Green Flag
    noun
    an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness

green flag

American  

noun

  1. (in automobile racing) a green-colored flag that is used to signal the start of a race.


Green Flag British  

noun

  1. an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Green Flag was set up in 2023 to invest in Ukrainian companies, and the venture-capital firm says that in recent months there has been growing interest in its inaugural $20 million fund.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

“Are they scrappy? Yes. Are they all working in bombed-out buildings with pliers found on the side of the road? No,” said Justin Zeefe, a founding partner at Los Angeles- and Kyiv-based Green Flag Ventures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

The number of parks and green spaces awarded Green Flag status has risen by more than a half in a year.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2014

Green Flag reminds us that anyone driving in France is already required to carry a warning triangle and a fluorescent safety vest.

From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2012

Every strike has already torn the Orange Flag and the Green Flag into two pieces, and stitched them together again after a new and portentous pattern.

From The Open Secret of Ireland by Kettle, T. M. (Thomas Michael)

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