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From {{prefix|en|a|head}}. Perhaps originally a nautical term, "beyond the [[head]] (of a ship)", then drifting into more general English usage where it is used to describe something as being "in front of".

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# HavingSo [[progress]]edas moreto be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.

#: ''{{ux|en|Set the clock '''ahead''' an hour.''}}

#: ''{{ux|en|Push the deadline '''ahead''' a day, from the 20th to the 21st.''}}

#* '''{{quote-book|en|year=1995''', |author=Charles Edward Weber, ''|title=Stories of Virtue in Business'', |publisher=University Press of America ({{ISBN|isbn=9780819199508}}), |page =55:

#*: |passage=Then the customer would set a rebidding deadline '''ahead''' a month - for example from September 1 to October 1 - and give everybody four weeks to submit {{...}}}}

#* '''{{quote-book|en|year=1998''', |author=United States House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture, ''|title=Implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 25, 1998'', |page =46:

#*: |passage=When we saw that wasn't working in 1976, we moved the deadline '''ahead''' to 1978.}}

#: ''push{{ux|en|Push the deadline '''ahead''' a day, from the 21st to the 20th''.}}

#* '''{{quote-text|en|year=1985''', ''|title=Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report'', |volume =43, |page =606:

#*: |passage={{...}} committees in Congress hae a March 15 deadline for reporting their "views and estimates" to the budget committees. The Senate Republican leadership, eager to get a jump on the annual budget process, moved the deadline '''ahead''' to March 1 for Senate committees.}}

#* '''{{quote-book|en|year=2003''', |author=United States House Committee on Government Reform, ''|title=Smooth Sailing Or an Impending Wreck?: The Impact of New Visa and Passport Requirements on Foreign Travel to the United States : Hearing Before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, July 10, 2003'', |page =113:

#*: |passage={{...}} the Department is responding to the statutory requirement in the USA Patriot Act that moved the deadline '''ahead''' to 2003 from 2007.}}

* Japanese: {{t+|ja|先に|tr=さきに, saki ni}}

* Russian: {{t+|ru|вперёд}} {{qualifier|where to}}, {{t+|ru|впереди́}} {{qualifier|where to}}

{{trans-top|inso theas directionto onebe isfurther facing or movingadvanced}}

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