go ahead
— phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone
B2 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.
B2 informal said to someone in order to give them permission to start to do something:
"Could I ask you a rather personal question?" "Sure, go ahead."
If an event goes ahead, it happens:
The festival is now going ahead as planned.
More examples
- The launch party will be going ahead as scheduled.
- The organizers are going ahead with the scheme despite the objections of local residents.
- I'm not sure about the legalities, but I suggest we go ahead with the plan and see what happens.
- Until we've got official permission to go ahead with the plans we're in limbo.
- Ignoring my protestations, they went ahead and chopped the tree down.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- swing into action idiom
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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Allowing and permitting
Occurring and happening