GO AHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go ahead mean? 

• GO AHEAD (verb)
  The verb GO AHEAD has 1 sense:

1. proceed (with a plan of action)

  Familiarity information: GO AHEAD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO AHEAD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Proceed (with a plan of action)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

go ahead; plow ahead

Context example:

He went ahead with the project

Hypernyms (to "go ahead" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

go-ahead (readiness to embark on bold new ventures)

go-ahead (a signal to proceed)

 Context examples 

I can go ahead and hammer out the stuff they want, and earn the equivalent of a good salary by it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sometimes, however, you can’t wait and have no choice but to grab it—then go ahead and do it.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“However, I am aching for a chance to kill you, so go ahead and cut.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Ere they returned to camp he knew enough to stop at “ho,” to go ahead at “mush,” to swing wide on the bends, and to keep clear of the wheeler when the loaded sled shot downhill at their heels.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We are travelling fast, and as we have no driver with us to carry tales, we go ahead of scandal; but I daresay that fear of the evil eye will follow hard behind us all the way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I can shoot you now, as I stand here; and if you are so minded, just go ahead and try to clap on the hatch.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)