welcome mat

noun

Definition of welcome matnext
as in open door

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Recent Examples of welcome mat Those benefits are especially important at a time when the welcome mat is being pulled away for many of these students. — Charles L. Welch, Forbes.com, 4 May 2026 Seattle is rolling out the welcome mat for this summer’s international competition! — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 23 June 2026 On Saturday, the longtime proponent of summer and bikini season rolled out the welcome mat for one of the OutKick Culture Department's favorite times of the year. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2026 Georgia has no official welcome mat for providers like Adams who offer unproven or risky procedures, but the state has become a safe harbor for them, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found. — Phoebe Quinton, AJC.com, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for welcome mat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for welcome mat
  1. approval
  2. permission
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  • Jolly replaced him and, within two months, secured Moreno’s approval to hire the architect of a World Series championship team to figure out what was not right in the organization, and to fix it.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • One reason ibogaine has struggled to win approval in the past is a lack of financial incentive, Barsuglia said.
    — Gavin Escott, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Definition of approval
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  • He was granted permission to travel to New York for the event.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • What the Council's change adds is not access to green finance but permission to badge the whole enterprise, oil growth included, as transition.
    — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of permission

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