Meanings
adjective
- colloquialDone 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
Origin
From the verb go it alone.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish yksin tehty
- yksin tehtydone alone or independently
German im Alleingang
- im Alleingangdone alone or independently
Polish robiony po swojemu
- robiony po swojemudone alone or independently
Cite this entry
APA
go-it-alone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go-it-alone
MLA
“go-it-alone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go-it-alone. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go-it-alone,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go-it-alone.
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