go in for
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.96 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To enter a competition.
Example Sentences
- ""I hope she doesn't go in for big purple orchids," Miss Tinkham said to Mrs. Rasmussen, "there are so many pretty kinds.""
- "Jem, there's a good opening among the hard Fact fellows, and they want men. I wonder you don't go in for statistics."
- "It ain't their fault; I know heaps of nice girls who feel it horribly. What can they do? they can't go in for cricket and football."
- ""Why on earth do you go in for track?" I asked him. And then he explained that he thought that, if you wanted to be an all-around man, you ought to cultivate some form of athletics— he's actually taken up pole-vaulting: isn't that a ghastly thought?"
Usage
Inflected Forms
goes in for (present, singular)
going in for (participle, present)
went in for (past)
gone in for (participle, past)