From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishget ahead phrasal verbto be successful and do better than other people in a job or work She soon found that it wasn’t easy to get ahead in the movie business. → get→ See Verb table
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get ahead• Alek, how do I get ahead?• But friends who eyed each other all the time, not exactly with envy, but with care to see who got ahead.• Having led sheltered lives in the North, they had never had to scrape to get ahead.• Take cheap shots and distort facts in order to get ahead?• The flattening of organizations means that all employees have to learn that old-fashioned promotion is not the only way of getting ahead.• Which just goes to prove, you do have to be a somebody to get ahead in this town!• Aquarians who can't avoid work and commitments will be hard pressed to get ahead today.From Longman Business Dictionaryget ahead phrasal verb [intransitive] to be more successful than other people or companies who are doing similar workWorking overseas is important to getting ahead in many companies. ofThe merger should allow the new company to get ahead of the competition. → get→ See Verb table 