go on

(CONTINUE) — phrasal verb with go

/ɡəʊ/

/ɡoʊ/ verb (present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone)

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B1 to continue or move to the next thing: Please go on with what you're doing and don't let us interrupt you. [+ -ing verb] We really can't go on living like this - we'll have to find a bigger house. [+ to infinitive] She admitted her company's responsibility for the disaster and went on to explain how compensation would be paid to the victims. What proportion of people who are HIV-positive go on to develop (= later develop) AIDS? If you go on (= continue behaving) like this you won't have any friends left at all.Continue and last

(Definition of go on (CONTINUE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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to express disagreement or refuse to do something

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