Usually means: To pass or elapse time.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word go by:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. go-by, go by: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. go-by: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. go-by: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. go-by, go by: Collins English Dictionary
  5. go by: Vocabulary.com
  6. go-by: Wordnik
  7. go by: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. go-by, go by: Wiktionary
  9. go-by: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. go-by: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. go-by: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Go-by, go-by, go by: Dictionary.com
  13. Go-by: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. go-by: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. go by: Rhymezone
  16. Go-by: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. THE GO BY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. Go-by: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. go-by, go by: Free Dictionary
  20. go by: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. go-by, go by: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. go by: Legal dictionary
  2. go by: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. go by: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (go by)

verb:  To pass or go past without much interaction.
verb:  To be called, to use as a name.
verb:  (with gender pronouns as object) To suggest or request that other people use a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
verb:  To follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.

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