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go in for

go in for verb: to enter a competition.

Verb

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

  1. To enter a competition.
  2. (colloquial) To have an interest in or approve of something.
    • "I hope she doesn't go in for big purple orchids," Miss Tinkham said to Mrs. Rasmussen, "there are so many pretty kinds."2016, Mary Lasswell, Let's Go For Broke
  3. (colloquial) To engage oneself or take part in something.
    • Jem, there's a good opening among the hard Fact fellows, and they want men. I wonder you don't go in for statistics.1854, Charles Dickens, “Mr. James Harthouse”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Reaping), page 148
    • It ain't their fault; I know heaps of nice girls who feel it horribly. What can they do? they can't go in for cricket and football.1876, Margaret Oliphant, Phoebe Junior, page 270

go in for meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

go in for in Malayalam

participate in, take part in, engage in
പങ്കു കൊള്ളുക, പങ്കെടുക്കുക, ഭാഗഭാക്കാകുക, പങ്കുകൂടുക, ഏർപ്പെടുക, ഉൾപ്പെടുക

go in for in Kannada

ಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಕೈಕೊಳ್ಳು

Forms of go in for

third-person singular presentgoes in for
present participlegoing in for
pastwent in for
past participlegone in for

Questions about go in for

What does go in for mean?
Go in for means to enter a competition.
What is go in for in Malayalam?
Go in for in Malayalam is പങ്കു കൊള്ളുക, പങ്കെടുക്കുക, ഭാഗഭാക്കാകുക. See Go in for meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is go in for?
Go in for is a verb.
What is the past tense of go in for?
The past tense of go in for is went in for.

Words near go in for in the dictionary

  1. go hungry
  2. go hunting where the ducks are
  3. go in
  4. go in at one ear and at out the other
  5. go in circles
  6. go in for
  7. go in off
  8. go in on
  9. go in one ear and out the other
  10. go in the out door
  11. go in unto

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: go in for (page history and authors); go in for (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); go in for (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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