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go on
verb
- to continue or proceed
- to happen or take place
there's something peculiar going on here
- (of power, water supply, etc) to start running or functioning
- preposition to mount or board and ride on, esp as a treat
children love to go on donkeys at the seaside
- theatre to make an entrance on stage
- to act or behave
he goes on as though he's rich
- to talk excessively; chatter
- to continue talking, esp after a short pause
``When I am Prime Minister,'' he went on, ``we shall abolish taxes.''
- foll by at to criticize or nag
stop going on at me all the time!
- preposition to use as a basis for further thought or action
the police had no evidence at all to go on in the murder case
- foll by for to approach (a time, age, amount, etc)
he's going on for his hundredth birthday
- cricket to start to bowl
- to take one's turn
- (of clothes) to be capable of being put on
- go much onused with a negative to care for; like
- something to go on or something to be going on withsomething that is adequate for the present time
interjection
- I don't believe what you're saying
Example Sentences
He was responsible for 47 patents at Rolls-Royce and went on to be named on more than 200 patents for Renishaw innovations.
As I went on air for the BBC from Damascus, I reported without fearing for my safety.
Or consider that Swift’s latest LP contains a song she wrote about her experience on the Eras tour — a song she went on to add to the very production that inspired it.
"I feel I need to be there to believe what's going on," she said.
A lot of building and work going on in the background for many years.
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