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go-getter
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Word definitions for go-getter in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone whose career progresses rapidly [syn: whizz-kid , whiz-kid , ball of fire ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
go-getter \go-getter\ n. a person disposed to initiate action, rather than take instructions; an enterprising person; a person with a strong drive to accomplish useful goals; especially, one whose career progresses rapidly. [WordNet sense 1] Syn: whizz-kid, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) One who is motivated or inclined to excel; one who strives to achieve success or improvement.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1910, American English, from go + agent noun from get (v.). Goer , with essentially the same meaning, is attested from late 14c.\n\n
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ George was a go-getter ; he wasn't afraid to take a risk. ▪ She's a real go-getter . ▪ You can't help admiring Debbie -- she's a real go-getter . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the age of 73, he sounded like a ghost from the ...
Usage examples of go-getter.
His insurance business was his own, in so far as any man's business is his own when he is obliged perpetually to show himself alert and a go-getter in the eyes of the giant companies which are his real masters.
But he had built it up on his personality, which was, as he assured me I could see, that of a go-getter and a man fated for great achievement.
He had left the business in the hands of his Number Two, who was a good fellow in his way, but lacked originality, was not innovative, was in fact just the sort of man a go-getter chooses for his Number Two because he presents no challenge.
He took boxes from her hand, put them on the rack, his face closed, thinking of someone else, maybe, some woman from the past who'd left him for a good-looking go-getter like Kyler.
Her father's friends in Philadelphia and Washington had spoken of him as a go-getter, a man who got things done.
Thus the keen, gung-ho go-getter looks of Edwina's father were nicely softened by her mother's influence, leaving their daughter looking less like a hawk and more like a lamb.
Wholesome -- constructive -- non-morbid -- civic-minded -- domestic -- (I forgot to mention the radio) normal -- that's the sort of go-getter that ought to go in for dogs.
Big business men, with whom Ham had come in contact, had always been go-getters with plenty of courage.
And we'll need bright young go-getters like you, my boy, to make things hum.
Vigorously mongrel, America is a land with success in its ozone, a new world for the go-getters and new-broomers, a land where fortune grins and makes the triple-ring sign.
All the night people – the drinkers, the ravers, the screamers – have finally gone home to bed but the day people – the joggers, the go-getters, the early worms earning six figures a year – have yet to stir.