go ahead

Verb

go ahead (third-person singular simple present goes ahead, present participle going ahead, simple past went ahead, past participle gone ahead)

1. To proceed with; to begin.
   • I went ahead with my plan.
   • Since that date the work on the new station has gone ahead unceasingly.1958 September, C. Alan Cook, “Johannesburg's Fourth Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 641
2. (imperative) Used to grant permission for or to give endorsement of a suggestion or proposal.
   • Go ahead and eat without me. I expect to be very late.
   • “Tom Sawyer, I want to ask you some questions.” “Go ahead,” he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.1894, Mark Twain, chapter 12, in Tom Sawyer Abroad

   Synonyms:

   go for it, be my guest, feel free

3. (procedure word) To send communication over the radio.
   • Bravo Six Actual, this is Bravo Six Four. Go ahead, over.