go into sth
(START)
C1 to start doing a particular type of work:
to start an activity, or start to be in a particular state or condition:
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- I'm glad she's going into medicine. It's a very worthy calling.
- First she goes into a deep trance and then the spirit voices start to speak through her.
- He's always wanted to go into teaching.
- He goes into a fit of rage over the smallest mistake.
- She went into a coma and died without recovering consciousness.
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Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth 1
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- cabin
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of duty idiom
- labour
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
- temp
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(DISCUSS)
C2 to discuss, examine, describe, or explain something in a detailed or careful way:
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- I won't go into detail over the phone, but I've been having a few health problems recently.
- Without going into all the details of the case, it's impossible to comment.
- The article didn't really go into the background of the events.
- The star's agent had distributed a list of topics that the singer was not prepared to go into.
- Although he mentions his childhood in the book, he never goes into it in much detail.
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Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
- broaden
- complicate
- depth
- detail
- dilate
- dilate on/upon sth
- dumb
- enlarge on/upon sth
- expand
- expand on sth
- expansive
- expatiate
- flesh
- flesh sth out
- predigested
- reductive
- simplify
- spec
- specification
- split
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(BE USED)
C1 mainly UK If time, money, or effort goes into a product or activity, it is used when producing or doing it:
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- A lot of thought went into the layout of the office.
- A huge amount of money has gone into this project.
- More of her time will need to go into the business if it is to be successful.
- All of his energy has been going into organizing the conference. No wonder he's tired.
- Most of his spare time goes into home improvement.
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Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- advantage
- avail
- avail yourself of sth
- be/go heavy on sth idiom
- go through sth
- gobble sth up
- heavy
- make capital out of sth idiom
- max
- max sth out
- mine
- upcycle
- upcycling
- usable
- usage
- use
- use sth up
- wear
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(HIT)
If a vehicle goes into something such as a tree or a wall, it hits it:
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Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding
- bang
- bowl sb over
- broadside
- buffet
- bump
- cannon
- catch
- ding
- hit
- jarring
- knock
- knock sb down
- knock sb over
- prang
- run (sth) into sth/sb
- run sb/sth down
- smash
- smash-up
- stack
- strike
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