go-it-alone en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɡəʊ ɪt əˈləʊn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈɡoʊ ɪt əˈloʊn/ (General-American)
Etymology
From the verb go it alone.
Meanings
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(colloquial) Done alone or independently, especially of something that is normally or better done in groups.
The president is taking the United States back to the nightmares of the world before the Second World War: closed borders, limited trade, and a go-it-alone national race to the bottom.
2017 January 27, Jeremi Suri, “How Trump’s Executive Orders Could Set America Back 70 Years”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2017:
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Translations (3)
fi yksin tehty (done alone or independently) · de im Alleingang (done alone or independently) · pl robiony po swojemu (done alone or independently)