go for

1) PHRASAL VERB If you go for a particular thing or way of doing something, you choose it.

[V P n] People tried to persuade him to go for a more gradual reform programme.

Syn:

select

2) PHRASAL VERB If you go for someone or something, you like them very much. [INFORMAL]

[V P n] I tend to go for large dark men.

3) PHRASAL VERB If you go for someone, you attack them.

[V P n] Pantieri went for him, gripping him by the throat.

4) PHRASAL VERB If you say that a statement you have made about one person or thing also goes for another person or thing, you mean that the statement is also true of this other person or thing.

[V P n] It is illegal to dishonour bookings; that goes for restaurants as well as customers.

5) PHRASAL VERB If something goes for a particular price, it is sold for that amount.

Some old machines go for as much as 35,000 pounds.

Syn:

fetch