go ahead with (something)

idiom

: to do (something) after planning to do it

Despite the bad weather, they decided to go ahead with the party.

: to do (something) after getting permission to do it

My boss told me to go ahead with the project.

Examples of go ahead with (something) in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web German automakers protested the EU decision to go ahead with tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, green groups reckoned new European EVs would now be able to compete, while some fear this might ignite wider trade tensions. —

Neil Winton, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 But things turned more contentious when McCall was asked about the Labour Party’s government’s plan to go ahead with a plan devised by Boris Johnson’s former Conservative Party government to ban junk food ads on TV before 9 p.m. to fight childhood obesity. —

Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024 Wealthy families who planned to make big gifts years from now are feeling pressure from the tax change to go ahead with it now. —

Robert Frank, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024 Bolton also claimed that Trump had encouraged Xi to go ahead with building Uyghur internment camps in Xinjiang. —

Chad De Guzman, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for go ahead with (something)

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“Go ahead with (something).” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20ahead%20with%20%28something%29. Accessed 25 Oct. 2024.

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