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one step ahead

one step ahead adverb: maintaining a slight advantage; continuing to lead.

Adverb

one step ahead (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Maintaining a slight advantage; continuing to lead.
    • I've always kept one step ahead of the competition.
    • Chalaza: Okay, Thursday night, it's mailroom Monday, we just got our new shipment.
      Xavier (Vernon Chatman): What do you do if the cops come knocking?
      Chalaza: We toilet-flush the drugs.
      Xavier: Let's stay one step ahead of the cops, flush them now.
      Chalaza: I like, one step ahead of the policia.2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 2
    Synonyms:
    one jump ahead

one step ahead meaning in Bengali

one step ahead in Bengali

সামান্য সুবিধা বজায় রাখা, এগিয়ে থাকা

Synonyms of one step ahead

Questions about one step ahead

What does one step ahead mean?
One step ahead means maintaining a slight advantage; continuing to lead.
What is one step ahead in Bengali?
One step ahead in Bengali is সামান্য সুবিধা বজায় রাখা, এগিয়ে থাকা. See One step ahead meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is one step ahead?
One step ahead is an adverb.

Words near one step ahead in the dictionary

  1. one should live so long
  2. one should never meet one's heroes
  3. one side
  4. one sixth
  5. one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
  6. one step ahead
  7. one step at a time
  8. one step forward, two steps back
  9. one strike and you're out
  10. one swallow does not a spring make
  11. one swallow does not a summer make

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