ongoing
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
Definition of ongoing
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Continuing, permanent, lasting.
“"Major refurbishments will be made over the next ten years. We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says.”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Continuing, permanent, lasting.
“"Major refurbishments will be made over the next ten years. We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says.”
- (not-comparable)Presently or currently happening; being in progress.
noun
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Something that is going on; a happening.
“We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.”
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present, rare)present participle and gerund of ongo
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.
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