progress

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ considerable, dramatic, excellent, genuine, good, great, impressive, real, remarkable, significant, substantial, tremendous

▪

We have made significant progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

▪ limited, little

▪ fast, rapid, swift

▪ inexorable (esp. BrE)

▪ slow, stately (esp. BrE)

▪

We watched the ship's stately progress out of the docks.

▪ adequate, satisfactory

▪ incremental, steady

▪ continued, further

▪ forward

▪ student

▪ academic, educational

▪ economic, evolutionary, industrial, medical, scientific, social, technical, technological

▪ human

▪ material

▪ moral, spiritual

VERB + PROGRESS

▪ achieve, make

▪ chart, follow, monitor, observe, trace, track, watch

▪

Regular tests enable the teacher to monitor the progress of each child.

▪ assess, check, check on, evaluate, gauge, measure, review

▪ demonstrate, show

▪ see

▪ mark

▪ block, hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, slow, slow down

▪ hold back

▪ halt, stop

▪ accelerate, facilitate

PROGRESS + VERB

▪ continue

▪ slow, stall

PROGRESS + NOUN

▪ report

▪ note (= written by a doctor about a patient) (AmE)

PREPOSITION

▪ in progress

▪

There was a tennis match in progress.

▪ progress from … to … 

▪

The book traced his steady progress from petty theft to serious crime.

▪ progress in

▪

He's making good progress in reading.

▪ progress on

▪

How much progress have the builders made on the house?

▪ progress towards/toward

▪

Who can halt his inexorable progress towards/toward yet another championship?

▪ progress with

▪

She's making steady progress with her thesis.

PHRASES

▪ a lack of progress

▪

I was frustrated by my apparent lack of progress.

▪ the march of progress

▪

the onward march of technological progress

▪ a rate of progress

▪

At the present rate of progress we won't be finished before July.

▪ work in progress

▪

I have a file for work in progress.

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verb

ADVERB

▪ nicely, satisfactorily, smoothly, well

▪

The talks are progressing very well.

▪ further

▪

He felt he still needed to progress further in his learning.

▪ fast, quickly, rapidly

▪

to progress rapidly in your career

▪ slowly

▪

The work is progressing slowly.

▪ gradually, steadily

▪ normally

VERB + PROGRESS

▪ fail to

PREPOSITION

▪ beyond

▪

Samir failed to progress beyond this first step on the ladder.

▪ from, through

▪

Students progress through the stages of the course.

▪ to

▪

She soon progressed from the basics to more difficult work.

▪ towards/toward

▪

to progress towards/toward a new kind of art

▪ up

▪

his ambition to progress up the career ladder

▪ with

▪

They are anxious to progress with the plan.

Progress is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑afternoon, ↑century, ↑development, ↑disease, ↑evening, ↑illness, ↑morning, ↑movie, ↑night, ↑pregnancy, ↑relationship, ↑story, ↑war