go ahead Значение & определение

Значение на go ahead на български

• 0 to start to do something:

  • We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.

  • I got so fed up with waiting for him to do it that I just went ahead and did it myself.

  • "Could I ask you a rather personal question?" "Sure, go ahead."

  • The festival is now going ahead as planned.

• 1 an occasion when permission is given for someone to start doing something or for an event or activity to happen:

  • The government has given the go-ahead for a multi-billion pound road-building project.

  • We're ready to start but we're still waiting to get the go-ahead from our head office.

• 2 enthusiastic about using new products and modern methods of doing things:

  • We have a flexitime system and crèche facilities and like to think of ourselves as a go-ahead employer.

• 3 to begin or continue with a plan or activity without waiting, esp. after a delay:

  • The meeting will go ahead as planned.

• 4 permission or notice that an activity may begin:

  • We’re ready to start the project but we’re still waiting for the go-ahead.

• 5 to start to do something:

  • go ahead with sth The United States can go ahead with the program with or without Canada's participation.

• 6 if an event goes ahead, it happens:

  • The company settled out of court on the day before the trial was due to go ahead.

• 7 permission to start doing something or for an event or activity to happen:

  • the go-ahead to do sth Developers got the go-ahead to turn 42 acres of industrial land into housing development.

  • the go-ahead for sth Airbus wants half a dozen launch customers signed up before it gives the go-ahead for the new aircraft.

  • get/give/receive the go-ahead It applied for permission to launch the fund in December and received the go-ahead in May.