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go-aheadism
noun[ U ]
USold-fashioneduk /ˌɡəʊ.əˈhed.ɪ.zəm/ us /ˌɡoʊ.əˈhed.ɪ.zəm/(alsogo-aheadativeness)
the quality of having energy and determination to achieve things for yourself, without needing to be told what to do:
He felt he was temperamentally unsuited to American go-aheadism.
We must rely on the energy and go-aheadativeness of our own people.
She saw Chicago as a city of worldliness and go-aheadism.
According to this view, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, America was a place of “go-aheadism” where your success or failure was purely your own responsibility.
He believed that his country owed its prosperity to the energy and "go-aheadism" of its people.
In times of difficulty for Europe, he saw an opportunity for the go-aheadativeness of American business men.
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