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TO GO AHEAD

Definition: TO GO AHEAD

TO GO AHEAD

1. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on onward. (c) To push on in an enterprise. [Colloq]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO GO AHEAD

English words defined with "TO GO AHEAD": seem. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO GO AHEAD

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus doing something very stupid, and I decided to go ahead anyway. (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie; writing credit: Trace Beaulieu, Paul Chaplin, Bridget Jones, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl)

Ahh, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Sunday, too (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO GO AHEAD

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

If you decide to go ahead with LASIK surgery, you will need an initial or baseline evaluation by your eye doctor to determine if you are a good candidate. (references)

In over 700 cases where curative treatments were not available and patients requested use of this same unproven therapy, FDA permitted such patients to go ahead with the treatment. (references)

The times for these discussions can be when a family member is deciding whether or not to go ahead with the gene testing and again later when the gene testing results are available. (references)

Business

The government is likely to go ahead with a number of parastatal or state-owned companies. (references)

After two years of consideration, the UAE has decided to go ahead with two major downstream projects, petrochemicals and refinery expansion. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

Government has recently decided to go ahead with a number of major environment and water related projects that should be of particular interest to U.S. suppliers. (references)

Cyprus

Once the non-resident investor has obtained the approval of the Central Bank, the investor is free to go ahead with an investment project and repatriate freely capital, profits, dividends, and interest arising from the investment. (references)

Political Economy

AUSTRIA

After previous governments had privatized most of the formerly state-owned manufacturing industries, the Conservative (OVP)-Freedom Party (FPO) government that took office in 2000, decided to go ahead with further privatization, including in the banking, telecommunications and energy sectors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO GO AHEAD

Language Translations for "TO GO AHEAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

vorgehen (act, action, advance, be fast, come first, gain, go first, go forward, go on, go on ahead, go to the front, happen, have priority, procedure, proceed, proceeding, take action, take precedence). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

事'運ぶ (to carry on, to proceed). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"と'は"ぶ (to carry on, to proceed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ogay aheaday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO GO AHEAD

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

procedo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO GO AHEAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-h-o-o-t"

-3 letters: dotage, hooted, hotdog, togaed.

-4 letters: aahed, adage, agate, ahead, death, doeth, gated, godet, hated, oohed, togae.

-5 letters: aged, agha, dago, data, date, dato, doat, doge, dote, doth, eath, egad, gaed, gate, geta, ghat, goad, goat, good, hade, haed, haet, hate, head, heat, hoed, hood, hoot, oath, odea, ohed, thae, toad, toea, toed, toga.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-h-o-o-t"
 

+5 letters: nonhalogenated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO GO AHEAD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      47 4F      41 48 45 41 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000111 01001111 00100000 01000001 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#71 &#79 &#32 &#65 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0047 004F      0041 0048 0045 0041 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492414923542393538

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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