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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a- head. Perhaps originally a nautical term, "beyond the head (of a ship)", then drifting into more general English usage where it is used to describe something as being "in front of".
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ahead (not comparable)
- At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.
- The island was directly ahead.
- Just ahead you can see the cliffs.
- Keep going straight ahead.
- So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.
- He finished two laps ahead of me.
- In all of his classes Jack was ahead.
- To be winning or in an advantageous position.
- In or for the future.
- There may be tough times ahead.
- You've got to think ahead so as not to be unprepared.
- To a later time.
- Set the clock ahead an hour.
- Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 20th to the 21st.
- 1995, Charles Edward Weber, Stories of Virtue in Business, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 55:
- Then the customer would set a rebidding deadline ahead a month - for example from September 1 to October 1 - and give everybody four weeks to submit […]
- 1998, United States House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture, Implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 25, 1998, page 46:
- When we saw that wasn't working in 1976, we moved the deadline ahead to 1978.
- At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.
- He paid his rent ahead.
- To an earlier time.
- Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 21st to the 20th.
- 1985, Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, volume 43, page 606:
- […] committees in Congress hae a March 15 deadline for reporting their "views and estimates" to the budget committees. The Senate Republican leadership, eager to get a jump on the annual budget process, moved the deadline ahead to March 1 for Senate committees.
- 2003, United States House Committee on Government Reform, Smooth Sailing Or an Impending Wreck?: The Impact of New Visa and Passport Requirements on Foreign Travel to the United States : Hearing Before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, July 10, 2003, page 113:
- […] the Department is responding to the statutory requirement in the USA Patriot Act that moved the deadline ahead to 2003 from 2007.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]in or to the front
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in or for the future
at an earlier time
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References
[edit]- “ahead”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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