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- 1 Expresses surprise or disbelief.
- 1 To board or mount (something), especially a vehicle. intransitive, transitive
"Please get on the bus as quickly as possible."
- 2 grow old or older wordnet
- 3 To cope or manage (over time); to handle a situation; to perform or make progress. intransitive
"John is really getting on at work."
- 4 develop in a positive way wordnet
- 5 To progress (with); to move forward. intransitive, often
"It's time to get on with improving quality."
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- 6 appear in a show, on T.V. or radio wordnet
- 7 To progress (with); to move forward.; To move forward so as to approach a deadline or become late in the day. intransitive, often
"Time is getting on. We need to hurry up or we'll miss our flight."
- 8 grow late or (of time) elapse wordnet
- 9 To approach (a value, level, point in time, etc.) intransitive
"The cost was getting on for a thousand pounds."
- 10 get up on the back of wordnet
- 11 To become old. intransitive
"My parents are visibly getting on (in years) these days."
- 12 get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.) wordnet
- 13 To have a good relationship; to get along. UK, intransitive, often
"“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”"
- 14 have smooth relations wordnet
- 15 To cope or deal (with). UK, intransitive
"I can't get on with prunes. They give me indigestion."
- 16 To commence (an action). transitive
"The dishes need washing, the floor needs vacuuming, the laundry needs folding. Get on it!"
- 17 To place a bet on. archaic, slang, transitive
"to get on a horse or a man"
- 18 Synonym of have on.
- 19 To have sex; to be sexually promiscuous. slang
- 20 To do drugs; to get drunk; to buy drugs; to regularly use drugs. slang
- 21 To observe or notice. slang
"Get on that guy!"
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