PROGRESS
Noun
progress (usually uncountable, plural progresses)
- Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. [from 15th c.]
Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
- Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. [from 15th c.]
Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
- An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. [from 15th c.]
- (now rare) A journey forward; travel. [from 15th c.]
- Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. [from 16th c.]
The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
Usage notes
- To make progress is often used instead of the verb progress. This allows complex modification of progress in ways that cannot be well approximated by adverbs modifying the verb. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
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