ahead

adverb

1. 1

   At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.

   The island was directly ahead.

   Just ahead you can see the cliffs.

   Keep going straight ahead.

2. 2

   So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.

   He finished two laps ahead of me.

   In all of his classes Jack was ahead.

3. 3

   In or for the future.

   There may be tough times ahead.

   You've got to think ahead so as not to be unprepared.

4. 4

   To a later time.

   Set the clock ahead an hour.

   Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 20th to the 21st.

   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 […]

   When we saw that wasn't working in 1976, we moved the deadline ahead to 1978.

5. 5

   At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.

   He paid his rent ahead.

6. 6

   To an earlier time.

   Push the deadline ahead a day, from the 21st to the 20th.

   […] 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.

   […] the Department is responding to the statutory requirement in the USA Patriot Act that moved the deadline ahead to 2003 from 2007.