go-ahead vs new

go-ahead

adj
  • Dashing; energetic. 

  • Progressive; exerting leadership. 

  • Being a score which gives the scoring team or player the lead in the game. 

noun
  • Approval, agreement, or instruction to begin or proceed. 

new

adj
  • Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task. 

  • Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed. 

  • Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known. 

  • Recently made, or created. 

  • Of recent origin; having taken place recently. 

  • In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used. 

  • Recently arrived or appeared. 

  • Next; about to begin or recently begun. 

  • Current or later, as opposed to former. 

  • Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing. 

  • Additional; recently discovered. 

  • Newborn. 

verb
  • Synonym of new up 

noun
  • A naval cadet who has just embarked on training. 

  • A typically light-coloured lager brewed by the bottom-fermentation method. 

  • Things that are new. 

adv
  • Newly (especially in composition). 

  • As new; from scratch. 

How often have the words go-ahead and new occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )