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I would add good ground manners, perhaps?

And good point! I've seen green mean anything from one ride to "5 years old, does all the things the big horses do, but doesn't have a neck rein yet!"

I look at it diffentely. I do everything in steps.
Say my horse just learning to halter. I furst working getting to accept the halter before I ever ask them to lead.
Or say you have a horse that nippy when tacking. I go 5 steps back to just standing When we can get a calm happy accepting horse at standing. We add brushing. Keep building.
I never class a horse because each horse is so different.
My boy danny been stuck on mostly ground work but he does ride. He even competed. But he spooky and jumpy.
Then Lampoon is really calm easy going guy. I never saddle him yet. He only 3yr but I have laid on him. He doesnt give to bucks.
So which horse is green broke? The one that has competed or the calm accepting horse?
Way I look at it is, if my horse cant handle the small stuff he out of control, we need to go backwards to beyond that point and rebuild going forward. My horse wont stand to be mounted, hes out of control. Need go backwards.
You cant have a good strong, long lasting house without havung furst built a better foundation for it to stand on. Same applys to the horse.
Ill give you a tip. Let your horse win. Much easier in the long run to allow him to work out the new reward you want him to have vs fighting or showing him whos boss.

I have to agree with DragonRun on this one. Green broke to me means simply you can try sitting on the horse and it may or may not try and kill you. We had a horse my gandparents bought for us kids for Christmas when we all moved out here to Florida. It was sold to them by friends with full knowledge that this horse was for children who have never ridden before. They were told she was green broke and we rode her multiple times at the ladies place in a round pen before we brought her home. We always had to call before hand and she was always in the round pen saddled and ready and obviously had been worked hard prior to us getting there. One time the lady was in the hospital because one of her horses broke her arm, and multiple ribs, we later found out it was this horse. When we finally got her home she was nasty. None of us kids could ride her. She bucked my dad off once and proceed to try and stomp him into the ground. We eventually had enough and sold her to a lady who fell in love with her. We told the couple everything and even drew up a contract that said we were not liable and that it was a full disclosure on the type of horse they were getting and at anytime if they had enough they could bring her back with a full refund.
That was suppose to be a green broke horse.
I think peoples experiences is what builds their definition of the term.
I would not expect a green broke horse to be rideable but I would at least expect decent ground manners and for them to sit relatively still for a farrier.

Like DragonRun said - I remember back when I was looking around for my first horse, my mom was very adamant that if the ad had the words “green broke” we weren’t even going to consider it, lol. Then again, we were looking for “bombproof” for my first since I’d had minimal experience before that.

Now, for a green broke, I’d consider buying it if I was looking for a project horse, to put it lightly. My experience with the words “green broke” in any sort of sales ad pretty much means there’s more work to be done than there should be for the horse’s age. :P

I train my own, so for one to leave my place as green, they have to be used to riding, know what cues mean what, manageable on the ground, things like that. Basically they need to know the basics, just need more time fine tuning these things until a rider can know what to expect from the horse.
I've seen folks sell em as green broke if they've only thrown a saddle on or purely lie saying the horse is green and it's barely halter broke. That's why I always try before I buy and when I do get one home I work them like they do that know anything to assess how much they do know.