go-getter
go-getter · go-getters
Draufgänger
An active and enterprising personAn active and enterprising person; one who is motivated or inclined to excel; one who strives to achieve success or improvement.
Meaning
1 senses(idiomatic)An active and enterprising person; one who is motivated or inclined to excel; one who strives to achieve success or improvement.
He's a promising young go-getter, but he needs to learn some things about office politics.
Tom Pitella is a go-getter and does not rely on others to prove things in the field of mathematics to him.
Draufgänger
More definitions
- someone whose career progresses rapidly
Translations
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By meaning 1
one who is motivated or inclined to excel:
Forms
plural: go-getters| Singular | go-getter |
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regular
Synonyms
3 synonymsClose in meaning
- someone whose career progresses rapidly:whizz-kidwhiz-kidball of fire
Word family
1 related wordsDerivedgo-getterness