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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go in on en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To contribute money for a joint purchase.
    • There are several of us who don't have a place to live and we thought we'd go in on a house together. 2012, Sunwon Hwang, Lost Souls: Stories, →ISBN, page 171:
    • We were invited by the aunt (“Tia”) of my grandson to go in on renting a cabin in the woods outside of Flagstaff, Arizona for a week. 2011, James Shinn, Faith and Loving On the Way To Heaven: Self-Help for Sinners and Saints!, →ISBN:
    • As they'd expected, Nino had turned them down when they'd asked their future brother-in-law to go in on the purchase. 2008, Karen Tintori, Unto the Daughters, →ISBN:
    • When domestic partners or others go in on real estate together, it is always recommended that the partners prepare a plan that goes into action should one of them be incapacitated. 2012, Richard Dolan, Don R. Campbell, David Franklin, Buying U.S. Real Estate: The Proven and Reliable Guide for Canadians, →ISBN:
    • We found a piece of land, and two partners, and went in on buying a small farm here. 2011, Steven McFadden, The Call of the Land: An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 116:
  2. To participate in; to join.
    • When we went in on that reconnaissance, we literally were met by thousands of Cambodian civilians as well as military personnel from all four factions. 2010, Jerold E. Brown, U. N. Peacekeeper in Cambodia, 1991-1992, →ISBN:
    • For example, one veteran officer advised a rookie, “The only reason to go in on a pursuit is not to get the perpetrator but to pull the cop who gets there first offa the guy before he kills him.” 1981, James M. Henslin, Down to Earth Sociology, →ISBN:
    • I was talking to the Marine Corps Recruiter and he told me that we could go in on the Buddy Program. 2010, Frederick Fenwick, Lasting Visions: With the 7th Marines in Vietnam, 1970, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
went in on Tense=Past lexicographic
gone in on Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
going in on Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goes in on Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic