carry on
About 8.60 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To continue or proceed as before.
I’ll be gone for a few days, but I hope you will carry on in my absence.
- verb To continue, maintain or pursue (an activity or enterprise).
to carry on commerce in a market
- verb To persist, persevere.
keep calm and carry on
- verb To talk continuously or prolongedly (about something), often in an excessively excited way.
He’s always carrying on about his stupid aquarium.
- verb To act or behave; especially, to misbehave so as to attract attention; to make a fuss; to behave ostentatiously.
I really wish you wouldn't carry on like that in public!
- verb To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship.
I thought he was my friend, but all the time he was carrying on with my wife!
- verb To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.
You may only carry on items that are smaller than a certain size.
- noun alternative spelling of carry-on
Similar words
continue go on proceed bear on uphold carry out conduct deal preserve keep on
Word family
carried on carries on carrying on
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