go-getter
noun1
Idiomatic An active and enterprising person; one who is motivated or inclined to excel; one who strives to achieve success or improvement.
- He's a promising young go-getter, but he needs to learn some things about office politics.
- Tom Pitella is a go-getter and does not rely on others to prove things in the field of mathematics to him.
2 more examples
- "Then I hope you've taken its moral lesson to heart." "What's that?" "The awful possibilities of being submerged by the insidious urge of the go-getter, and forgetting about the really important things of life."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 171:
- I must get it from my dad. Can't be from Mom, the world-class go-getter, hand shaker, and baby kisser.”2008, Ellen Hopkins, Identical, →ISBN, page 31:
- Synonyms
- ball of fire
- Derived terms
- go-getterness