1.
If you go on doing something, or go on with an activity, you continue to do it.
Unemployment is likely to go on rising this year...
I’m all right here. Go on with your work...
I don’t want to leave, but I can’t go on.
= carry on
PHRASAL VERB : V P -ing , V P with n , V P
2.
If something is going on , it is happening.
I don’t know what’s going on.
PHRASAL VERB : V P
3.
If a process or institution goes on , it continues to happen or exist.
The population failed to understand the necessity for the war to go on.
PHRASAL VERB : V P
4.
If you say that a period of time goes on , you mean that it passes.
Renewable energy will become progressively more important as time goes on.
= go by
PHRASAL VERB : V P
5.
If you go on to do something, you do it after you have done something else.
Alliss retired from golf in 1969 and went on to become a successful broadcaster...
PHRASAL VERB : V P to-inf
6.
If you go on to a place, you go to it from the place that you have reached.
He goes on to Holland tomorrow.
PHRASAL VERB : V P prep / adv
7.
If you go on , you continue saying something or talking about something.
Meer cleared his throat several times before he went on...
‘Go on,’ Chee said. ‘I’m interested.’
PHRASAL VERB : V P , V P with quote
8.
If you go on about something, or in British English go on at someone, you continue talking about the same thing, often in an annoying way. ( INFORMAL )
Expectations have been raised with the Government going on about choice and market forces...
She’s always going on at me to have a baby.
PHRASAL VERB : V P about n , V P at n to-inf , also V P at n
9.
You say ‘Go on’ to someone to persuade or encourage them to do something. ( INFORMAL )
Go on, it’s fun.
PHRASAL VERB : only imper , V P
10.
If you talk about the information you have to go on , you mean the information you have available to base an opinion or judgment on.
But you have to go on the facts...
There’s not much to go on.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n , V P n
11.
If an electrical device goes on , it begins operating.
A light went on at seven every evening.
= come on
PHRASAL VERB : V P