Progress Making I Made Monitor Work English Noun

• i think we're making progress.
• we will continue to monitor progress over the next few months.
• economic/scientific/technological progress
• rapid/good progress

progress

1. the process of improving or developing, or of getting nearer to achieving or completing something
• I think we're making progress.
• We will continue to monitor progress over the next few months.
• economic/scientific/technological progress
• rapid/good progress
• We hope to see some real progress by March.
• James is making steady progress in his recovery.
• Police are making significant progress in fighting computer crime.
• The two sides have made very slow progress in resolving the dispute.
• There's been no sign of progress on this issue.
• The company is making progress towards this target.
• They asked for a progress report on the building work.

Extra Examples

• You can follow the progress of the project on our website.
• He's making good progress in maths.
• How much progress have the builders made on the extension?
• I was frustrated by my apparent lack of progress when I started the violin.
• Regular tests enable the teacher to monitor the progress of each child.
• The book traced his steady progress from petty theft to serious crime.
• We have made significant progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
• Who can halt this man's inexorable progress towards yet another championship?
• At the present rate of progress we won't be finished by July.
• Technological progress is changing the demand for labour.
2. movement forwards or towards a place
• She watched his slow progress down the steep slope.
• There wasn't much traffic so we made good progress.
• We watched the ship's stately progress out of the docks.
3. happening at this time
• SEE ALSO work in progress
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/work-in-progress
• Work on the new offices is now in progress.
• Please be quiet—examination in progress.

Extra Examples

• I have one file for completed work and one for work in progress.
• There was a cricket match in progress.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin progressus ‘an advance’, from the verb progredi, from pro- ‘forward’ + gradi ‘to walk’. The verb became obsolete in British English use at the end of the 17th cent. and was readopted from American English in the early 19th cent.