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Word progress
WordType (verb)
Phonetic BrE / prəˈɡres / NAmE / prəˈɡres /
Example
  • 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.
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progress

(verb)BrE / prəˈɡres / NAmE / prəˈɡres /
  1. to improve or develop over a period of time; to make progress
    • synonym advance
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/advance_2
    • 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.
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