noun, adjective
noun (the go-ahead) [sing.] permission for sb to start doing sth:
The council has given the go-ahead to start building. * Union leaders have now got the go-ahead for new talks with management.
adjective [usuallybeforenoun] willing to try new ideas, methods, etc. and therefore likely to succeed:
a go-ahead company / school / manager
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for go-ahead is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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