right

/rɑɪt/ exclamation (AGREEMENT)

Definition

› used to express agreement with someone or to show that you have understood what someone has said: "Robert, be sure to pick up Susan on your way home." "Right."

(Definition of right exclamation (AGREEMENT) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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right adj, adv SUITABLE
right adj, adv, n DIRECTION
right adv EXACTLY
right angle n
right away idiom
right exclamation AGREEMENT
right n LEGAL OPPORTUNITY
right n POLITICS
right on (the money) idiom
right on idiom
right triangle n

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right adj, adv CORRECT
right adj, adv SUITABLE
right adj, adv HEALTHY
right adj, adv MORAL RULE
right adj WISE
right n LEGAL OPPORTUNITY

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that’s all right idiom
get off on the right foot idiom
right away idiom
right on idiom
right on (the money) idiom
in its own right, at in your own right idiom

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