Progress Progressing Progressed Prəˈɡres Students Work Slowly Career

• the course allows students to progress at their own speed.
• work on the new road is progressing slowly.
• the line of traffic progressed slowly through the town.
• cases can take months to progress through the courts.

progress

1. to improve or develop over a period of time; to make progress
• synonym advance
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• The course allows students to progress at their own speed.
• Work on the new road is progressing slowly.
2. to move forward
• The line of traffic progressed slowly through the town.
• Cases can take months to progress through the courts.
3. to go forward in time
• The weather became colder as the day progressed.

Extra Examples

• He felt he still needed to progress further in his learning.
• Samir failed to progress beyond this first step on the ladder.
• She soon progressed from the basics to more difficult work.
• Students progress through the stages of the course.
• The talks are progressing very well.
• The work is progressing quite slowly.
• They are anxious to progress with the plan.
• his ambition to progress up the career ladder
• progressing rapidly in his chosen career
• slowly progressing towards a new kind of art
• to progress rapidly in your career
• to progress towards/toward a new kind of art
• The visiting team’s confidence increased as the game progressed.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they progress
• he / she / it progresses
• past simple progressed
• past participle progressed
• -ing form progressing

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.