the go-ahead

noun

: permission to do something

We've finally been given the go-ahead for the project.

The company received/got the go-ahead to manufacture the new drug.

Examples of the go-ahead in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the meantime, the Rangers challenged the play and Gonzalez was called out, ending the inning and erasing the go-ahead run that initially scored. —Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 8 May 2025

Willy Adames drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning against his former team to complete a three-run comeback as the Giants defeated the Brewers, 6-5, on Thursday afternoon at Oracle Park to take three of four games from Milwaukee. —Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025

In the top of the 13th, Brock’s Carlie Berry delivered the go-ahead hit that put the Eagles on top. —Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Apr. 2025

Right-hander Porter Hodge’s clean top of the 10th to strand the go-ahead run at third base set up Happ to lead off the bottom of the frame. —Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for the go-ahead

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