GO AROUND


Meaning of GO AROUND in English

1.

If you go around to someone’s house, you go to visit them at their house.

I asked them to go around to the house to see if they were there...

Mike went round to see them.

PHRASAL VERB : V P to n , V P to-inf

2.

If you go around in a particular way, you behave or dress in that way, often as part of your normal life.

I had got in the habit of going around with bare feet...

If they went around complaining publicly, they might not find it so easy to get another job.

= go about

PHRASAL VERB : V P prep , V P -ing , also V P adj

3.

If a piece of news or a joke is going around , it is being told by many people in the same period of time.

There’s a nasty sort of rumour going around about it.

PHRASAL VERB : V P

4.

If there is enough of something to go around , there is enough of it to be shared among a group of people, or to do all the things for which it is needed.

Eventually we will not have enough water to go around.

PHRASAL VERB : V P

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