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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
go-ahead
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
▪ There are still a number of potential stumbling blocks beginning with today's meeting before the project could get the go-ahead.
▪ She got the go-ahead from her board to start up a new youth book chronicling the history of Tucson's projects.
▪ The company has been promised the contract if Sizewell gets the go-ahead.
▪ The Diocese of Chester could have as many as 27 women priests within two years if ordination of women gets the go-ahead.
▪ But apparently Hasler never got the go-ahead from higher-ups to make the payments, the Journal reported.
▪ Even if Lucky Chances gets the go-ahead to open, opponents hope to keep alcohol away from patrons.
give
▪ The project was given a formal go-ahead by the Railtrack Board in January following several years of planning and discussions over financing.
▪ Geffin gave Metheny the go-ahead without blinking an eye.
▪ Newton was one of them, and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere, it had been given the go-ahead.
▪ At this point management gives you the go-ahead on the project and you start work.
▪ For safety, I dismantled the link to Kirov and gave the final go-ahead.
▪ Construction of the three remaining dams was given the go-ahead.
▪ A 1995 reform measure gave Jones the go-ahead to compile a single state voter list.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A 1995 reform measure gave Jones the go-ahead to compile a single state voter list.
▪ All we need now is the go-ahead from Southampton Council.
▪ At this point management gives you the go-ahead on the project and you start work.
▪ Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.
▪ Geffin gave Metheny the go-ahead without blinking an eye.
▪ No official go-ahead from the national safety authorities has yet been given.
▪ The project was given a formal go-ahead by the Railtrack Board in January following several years of planning and discussions over financing.
▪ There are still a number of potential stumbling blocks beginning with today's meeting before the project could get the go-ahead.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fortuna is a young, go-ahead computer company based in Düsseldorf.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Against Oregon five days later, he made the go-ahead basket, grabbed a rebound and sparked his lethargic teammates.
▪ Sunday's dynamic, no-nonsense, no-holds barred mood makes it a go-ahead time.
Wiktionary
go-ahead

a. 1 (context sports not comparable English) A score which gives the scoring team or player the lead in the game. 2 (context comparable English) progressive; exerting leadership. n. approval, agreement, or instruction to begin or proceed.

WordNet
go-ahead

  1. n. a signal to proceed [syn: green light]

  2. readiness to embark on bold new ventures [syn: enterprise, enterprisingness, initiative]

Wikipedia
Go-Ahead

Go-Ahead may refer to:

  • Go-Ahead Group, British transport operator
  • Go Ahead Eagles, Dutch football club
  • "Go Ahead", a single from Rilo Kiley's album Take Offs and Landings
  • Go Ahead, a now-defunct candy bar from the early 1980s featuring a crisp peanut butter filling surrounded by chocolate
  • Go Ahead (band), a band formed by Grateful Dead members Brent Mydland and Bill Kreutzmann
  • Go Ahead, a Mild advertising campaign by the Sampoerna tobacco company

Usage examples of "go-ahead".

Bobby Van Klomp had finally gotten the go-ahead to form a paratroop unit.

Three more runs at the milligram level showed no anomalies, and they got the go-ahead to do the Ten-Ten experiment--only two days before voting began in the senate election.

Then, satisfied that the quartet going to the edge of the forest was properly sealed into the chameleons, Bass gave the go-ahead.

Reader response to the Gorkon and its crew (made up of both original characters and past TNG and DS9 guest stars) was outstanding, so I was given the go-ahead to use them again in this duology and continue their stories forward (look for the first two books in the Star Trek: I.

Even though the evidence linked the death squads to Salvadoran friends of Unomundo, no one in Washington gave Able the go-ahead to pursue the link to the International.

So, after discussing it with Jim Baen and getting his go-ahead, I tried the experiment of producing an online magazine which would incorporate the best of the fan fiction, with me serving as editor, as well as a number of factual articles which bear on the series.

If everyone's in agreement, I'll give Doron the go-ahead to commence operations, while we concentrate on a massive global manhunt to hunt down these suicide teams.

All the hardware was in working order, but the system complexity was so great that vehicles could not get the go-ahead.

Hiro Toda, managing director of the most go-ahead shipbuilding complex in Japan, never does anything suddenly or unpremeditated.

He finally gives Moore the go-ahead, and Moore breathes in deep and pushes off.

When and if Willoughby got his sorely-wished-for go-ahead for remobilizing the Japanese military to act as an American puppet force', Hattori would oversee it.

Yes—here, Sluicebox got the go-ahead and Nobody Home got the ten year wait.

Just as soon as Nixon gave his go-ahead to the Space Task Group's proposals.