"go in for" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes in for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going in for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went in for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone in for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> in for"
      },
      "expansion": "go in for (third-person singular simple present goes in for, present participle going in for, simple past went in for, past participle gone in for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "64 15 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 15 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 19 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"in\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 15 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 11 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enter a competition."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_in_for-en-verb-jpsU5c6-",
      "links": [
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Mary Lasswell, Let's Go For Broke:",
          "text": "\"I hope she doesn't go in for big purple orchids,\" Miss Tinkham said to Mrs. Rasmussen, \"there are so many pretty kinds.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have an interest in or approve of something."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_in_for-en-verb-vLbxJLM~",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To have an interest in or approve of something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, Charles Dickens, “Mr. James Harthouse”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, book the second (Reaping), page 148:",
          "text": "Jem, there's a good opening among the hard Fact fellows, and they want men. I wonder you don't go in for statistics.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Edmund Wilson, American Earthquake, page 140:",
          "text": "\"Why on earth do you go in for track?\" I asked him. And then he explained that he thought that, if you wanted to be an all-around man, you ought to cultivate some form of athletics— he's actually taken up pole-vaulting: isn't that a ghastly thought?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Margaret Oliphant, Phoebe Junior, page 270:",
          "text": "It ain't their fault; I know heaps of nice girls who feel it horribly. What can they do? they can't go in for cricket and football.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage oneself or take part in something."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_in_for-en-verb-jUL-bOPZ",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To engage oneself or take part in something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go in for"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"in\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes in for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going in for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went in for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone in for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> in for"
      },
      "expansion": "go in for (third-person singular simple present goes in for, present participle going in for, simple past went in for, past participle gone in for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To enter a competition."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Mary Lasswell, Let's Go For Broke:",
          "text": "\"I hope she doesn't go in for big purple orchids,\" Miss Tinkham said to Mrs. Rasmussen, \"there are so many pretty kinds.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have an interest in or approve of something."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To have an interest in or approve of something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, Charles Dickens, “Mr. James Harthouse”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, book the second (Reaping), page 148:",
          "text": "Jem, there's a good opening among the hard Fact fellows, and they want men. I wonder you don't go in for statistics.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Edmund Wilson, American Earthquake, page 140:",
          "text": "\"Why on earth do you go in for track?\" I asked him. And then he explained that he thought that, if you wanted to be an all-around man, you ought to cultivate some form of athletics— he's actually taken up pole-vaulting: isn't that a ghastly thought?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Margaret Oliphant, Phoebe Junior, page 270:",
          "text": "It ain't their fault; I know heaps of nice girls who feel it horribly. What can they do? they can't go in for cricket and football.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage oneself or take part in something."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To engage oneself or take part in something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go in for"
}