progress
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
progress
▶noun /ˈprəʊgrɛs/
- 1 forward or onward movement towards a destination.
- 2 development towards a better, more complete, or more modern condition.
- 3 archaic a state journey or official tour.
- 1 move or develop towards a destination or an improved or advanced condition.
■ cause to make regular progress.
- 2 (usu. as adj. progressed) Astrology calculate the position of (a planet) or of all the planets and coordinates of (a chart).
– origin ME (as n.): from L. progressus ‘an advance’, from progredi, from pro- ‘forward’ + gradi ‘to walk’.
'progress' also found in these Oxford entries:
advance
- advanced
- afoot
- along
- arrest
- backward
- backwater
- barrier
- block
- bog
- career
- check
- clear
- clerk
- come
- committee stage
- continuous assessment
- crack
- creep
- dead end
- deadlock
- disconcert
- do
- dynamic
- easel
- end
- exploit
- fast track
- filibuster
- fly
- follow
- foothold
- forge
- forward
- further
- gallop
- get
- going
- grow
- hamper
- hand
- headway
- hold
- impede
- imperfect
- intercurrent
- interrupt
- keep
- leap
- learning curve
