go-getter

noun

Definitions

  1. An active and enterprising person

    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.
    • "Then I hope you've taken its moral lesson to heart." "What's that?" "The awful possibilities of being submerged by the insidious urge of the go-getter, and forgetting about the really important things of life."

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