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go-ahead

[ goh-uh-hed ]

noun

  1. Usually the go-ahead. permission or a signal to proceed:

    They got the go-ahead on the construction work.

  2. Usually the go-ahead. Baseball. go-ahead run:

    With two outs, and the go-ahead on first, Hoffman winds up and delivers the pitch.

  3. Chiefly Hawaii and California. a sandal held on the foot by a strap between the big toe and the next toe.


adjective

  1. moving forward; advancing.
  2. a go-ahead Yankee peddler.

go ahead

verb

  1. intr, adverb to start or continue, often after obtaining permission
“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


noun

  1. the go-ahead informal.
    permission to proceed
“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

adjective

  1. enterprising or ambitious
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of go-ahead1

An Americanism first recorded in 1830–40; noun and adjective use of verb phrase go ahead
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Example Sentences

The National Elections commission said it would go ahead and conduct the election on December 16, 2014.

Ultimately they would go ahead along with the Washington Post and publish a host of revelations from the Snowden cache.

Steve thought it was an interesting approach and gave me the go-ahead.

But go ahead and try it anyway, since it seems to work somehow.

Over the next two years, he got the go-ahead to open two more schools.

Either: we cannot give you what you ask, so fall back onto the defensive; or, go ahead, we will give you the means.

It is a generally accepted axiom that a public man cannot afford to be modest in these go-ahead days of "boom."

Darrell pressed his arm, and answered, with a smile, "I won't argue with you about the War; you go ahead and write your book!"

There—I feel better—cant work this morning—not in the mood—you go ahead—Im through!

When he told his plan he was laughed at by some who thought it very foolish, but Porter told him to go ahead.

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