word-vault/dist/data/cards/pr/progress.json

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{
    "term": "progress",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the process of improving or developing, or of getting nearer to achieving or completing something",
            "sensetop": "progress in somethingprogress in doing somethingprogress on somethingprogress towards something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I think we're **making progress**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We will continue to **monitor progress** over the next few months."
                },
                {
                    "text": "economic/scientific/technological progress"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**rapid/good progress**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We hope to see some **real progress** by March."
                },
                {
                    "text": "James is making **steady progress** in his recovery.",
                    "contextForm": "progress in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police are making **significant progress** in fighting computer crime.",
                    "contextForm": "progress in doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two sides have made very **slow progress** in resolving the dispute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's been no **sign of progress** on this issue.",
                    "contextForm": "progress on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company is making progress towards this target.",
                    "contextForm": "progress towards something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They asked for a **progress report** on the building work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can follow the progress of the project on our website."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's making good progress in maths."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How much progress have the builders made on the extension?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was frustrated by my apparent lack of progress when I started the violin."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Regular tests enable the teacher to monitor the progress of each child."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book traced his steady progress from petty theft to serious crime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have made significant progress in the fight against HIV/​AIDS."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Who can halt this man's inexorable progress towards yet another championship?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "At the present rate of progress we won't be finished by July."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Technological progress is changing the demand for labour."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["considerable", "dramatic", "excellent"],
                "verb + progress": ["achieve", "make", "chart"],
                "progress + verb": ["continue", "slow", "stall"],
                "progress + noun": ["report", "note"],
                "preposition": ["in progress", "progress from… to…", "progress in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a lack of progress",
                    "the march of progress",
                    "a rate of progress"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "movement forwards or towards a place",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She watched his slow progress down the steep slope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There wasn't much traffic so we made good progress."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We watched the ship's stately progress out of the docks."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["considerable", "dramatic", "excellent"],
                "verb + progress": ["achieve", "make", "chart"],
                "progress + verb": ["continue", "slow", "stall"],
                "progress + noun": ["report", "note"],
                "preposition": ["in progress", "progress from… to…", "progress in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a lack of progress",
                    "the march of progress",
                    "a rate of progress"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "happening at this time",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Work on the new offices is now in progress."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please be quiet—examination in progress."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have one file for completed work and one for work in progress."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a cricket match in progress."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈprəʊɡres/",
                "audio": "pr/progress/progress__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈprɑːɡres//ˈprɑːɡrəs/",
                "audio": "pr/progress/progress__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "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."
}