in progress

UNDER WAY, going on, ongoing, happening, occurring, taking place, proceeding, continuing; unfinished, on the stocks; N. Amer. in the works.

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phrasal

: going on : occurring

entertained troops … while the fighting was still in progress — Current Biography

with the beginning of healing already in progress — Morris Fishbein

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in progress

1. Going on

2. In course of happening or being produced

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in progress phrase

happening, or being done

Harwich Road will be closed while the maintenance work is in progress.

Thesaurus: existing, happening or being dealt with now_synonym

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in the course of being done or carried out

a meeting was in progress

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in progress

: happening or being done

Several projects are now in progress.

The filming is already in progress.

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in progress idiom

(formal) happening at this time

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Work on the new offices is now in progress.

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Please be quiet— examination in progress.

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