look ahead/ go ahead,Plan B

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Rhee's 'Plan B' Targets Teacher Quality
Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee is preparing to bypass the Washington Teachers' Union in pursuit of the objective she considers essential to overhauling the District's public schools: the power to fire at will teachers she deems ineffective.
(By Bill Turque, The Washington Post)

Business Dictionary:

Plan B

Alternative plan if a principal plan of action is unsuccessful; backup plan. For example, if a new product is less than successful, plan B's strategy is to repackage it and advertise it in a different market.


Quote from W. Edwards Deming:
Management's job is to look ahead.


look ahead phrasal verb
to think about what will happen in the future and plan for these events:
We are trying to look ahead and see what our options are.

Main Entry:

ahead

Pronunciation:

\ə-ˈhed\

Function:

adverb or adjective

Date:

1596

1 a: in a forward direction or position : forward b: in front
2: in, into, or for the future ahead>
3: in or toward a more advantageous position ahead>
4: at or to an earlier time : in advance ahead>

━━ ad., a. 前方に［の］; 先んじて; 進めて, どんどん; 勝越して, 優勢で.
ahead of　…の前に; …に勝って; …に先んじて; …より進んで.
get ahead (in the world)　成功する; 出世する.
get ahead of　…を抜く, 凌駕する.
go ahead　進む; 進歩する; （…の）先に行く ((of)); （…を）進める ((with)).
go ahead phrasal verb
1 to start to do something:
We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
I got so fed up with waiting for him to do it that I just went ahead and did it myself.

2 INFORMAL said to someone in order to give them permission to start to do something:
"Could I ask you a rather personal question?" "Sure, go ahead."

3 If an event goes ahead, it happens:
The festival is now going ahead as planned.

go-ahead Show phonetics
noun [S]
The government has given the go-ahead (= given permission) for a multi-billion pound road-building project.
We're ready to start but we're still waiting to get the go-ahead from our head office.

go-ahead Show phonetics
adjective UK
enthusiastic about using new inventions and modern methods of doing things:
We have a flexitime system and crèche facilities and like to think of ourselves as a go-ahead employer.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)


Go ahead!　〔話〕 よし, やりたまえ！, そら行け！, （促して）それから？; 【海事】ゴーへー！, 前進！.
straight ahead　まっすぐに.

: relating to or being music performed in an unembellished manner typical of a given idiom or performer; broadly : straightforward