go-getting


Also found in: Thesaurus.
Translations

go-getting

[ˈgəʊgetɪŋ] ADJdispuesto, resuelto
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

go-getting

adj (inf) personaufstrebend
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
References in periodicals archive ?
The Tory, 37, gushed about the grime star's "go-getting nature" and said he listened to his music in the ministerial motor.
Just as you might expect, the chaps have created a suitably rugged, go-getting and outdoorsy scent of smoky woods, hot spice, leather, fern and basil.
Set during World War Two, go-getting Nancy is no shrinking Violet.
I'd like to stay friends, but I just need a more go-getting and interesting lover.
Thirdly, Webster's proposes that ambition is "a desire for activity or exertion," or, in the words of my handy Microsoft Word thesaurus, "determined, go-getting, ruthless, striving, pushy, motivated." While it's been my ongoing experience that a mother of seven must occasionally exert herself, I can, humanly speaking, rarely muster a desire to do so.
Like every go-getting Aries, action is the key to success.