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get on

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verb

  1. Also (when preposition): get onto.  to board or cause or help to board (a bus, train, etc)

  2. (tr) to dress in (clothes as specified)

  3. (intr) to grow late or (of time) to elapse

    it's getting on and I must go

  4. (intr) (of a person) to grow old

  5. to approach (a time, age, amount, etc)

    she is getting on for seventy

  6. (intr) to make progress, manage, or fare

    how did you get on in your exam?

  7. to establish a friendly relationship

    he gets on well with other people

  8. to continue to do

    get on with your homework!
"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

interjection

  1. I don't believe you!

"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
get on Idioms  

  1. Also, get upon . Climb on, mount. For example, They say one should get back on a horse as soon as one's fallen off . [Early 1600s]

  2. See get along , def. 1.

  3. See get along , def. 2.

  4. See get along , def. 4. Also see along in years .

  5. , etc. Prosper or succeed, as in Her inheritance has helped her get on in society , or Dad asked if Bill was getting on in the company . [Early 1800s]

  6. get on with it . Move ahead, pursue one's work. For example, We've spent enough time talking about it; now let's get on with it . [Early 1800s]

  7. get on for . Advance toward an age, amount, time, and so on. For example, It's getting on for noon, so we'd better eat lunch . This usage is often put in the participial form, getting on for . [Mid-1800]

  8. See turn on , def. 3. Also see the subsequent entries beginning with get on .

Example Sentences

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Get on the freeway and you understand the whole body of the city at once: the arteries, the pulse, the scale of the thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Get on the stop, and get off the stop, and get a feel for what the ridership is like.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 25, 2025

Get on with your next kitchen adventure and make yourself some candy.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2023

Get on a roll with this week’s Slate News Quiz.

From Slate • May 12, 2023

“Never you mind. Get on and do us another dozen screws, will you?”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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