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Definition of Go-around
1. Noun. An approach that fails and gives way to another attempt.
Definition of Go-around
1. Verb. Alternative form of go around ¹
2. Noun. (aviation) An abort of a final approach where the pilot circles the airport to make another attempt at landing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go-around
Literary usage of Go-around
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... and this year had attempted in company with half a dozen students and local
guides to go around ..."
2. Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the by James Parton (1868)
"For me, I keep my gloves as long as the backs hold together, and go around for
forty-five weeks of the fifty-two with my hands clenched into fists to cover ..."
3. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session by William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens (1866)
"The negroes who are working the best are those who have been permitted heretofore
to hire their «wn time and go around and work for themselves, ..."
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