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Meaning: (idiomatic,intransitive)Tocontinueorproceedas before.I’ll be gone for a few days, but I hope you willcarry onin my absence.; (idiomatic,transitive)Tocontinue,maintainorpursue(an activity or enterprise).tocarry oncommerce in a marketCarry onthe good work.It is difficult tocarry ona conversation with so many distractions.1897, Charles Clive Bigham Mersey,A ride through western Asia, London, New York: Macmillan,→OCLC,page18:Hecarried ona long conversation with the dragoman in Turkish, the upshot of which was that he would give me a "buyuruldu" or special order to go to Sivas, and would provide an escort if the British Consul would send a written guarantee that I was abona fidetraveller.1960December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, inTrains Illustrated, page755:The Schynige Platte Railwaycarries onits traffic with no more than four electric locomotives (with one steam locomotive in reserve).2023March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, inRAIL, number978, page52:In his favour, Beeching declared that he supportedcarrying onwith the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform.; (idiomatic,intransitive)Totalkcontinuously (about something), often in an excessively excited wayHe’s alwayscarrying onabout his stupid aquarium.; (idiomatic,intransitive)Toactorbehave; especially, tomisbehaveso as to attractattention; to make afuss; to behave ostentatiously.Synonym:seemisbehave § SynonymsI really wish you wouldn'tcarry onlike that in public!; (idiomatic,intransitive)To have anillicitsexualorflirtatiousrelationship.I thought he was my friend, but all the time he wascarrying onwith my wife!
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