progress

IPA: prˈɑgrɛs

Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
(now rare) A journey forward; travel.
Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
A placename
A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada
An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana, United States
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Mississippi, United States
A former unincorporated community and neighborhood of Washington County, Oregon, United States, in the cities of Tigard and Beaverton
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, lying in Susquehanna Township and Lower Paxton Township
A programming language
Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.

Examples of "progress" in Sentences

A murder taking place or a murder being stopped in progress is newsworthy.
A human society can either fall backward or progress forward, but it cannot _progress backward_.
He certainly has the potential, his biggest work in progress is adapting to the culture and the demand, Mendenhall said.
If there are no intelligible or describable social processes, then there may be progress, but there will be no sociology and no _methods of progress_.
But by progress must not be understood the imaginary and metaphysical _law of progress_, which should lead the generations of man with irresistible force to some unknown destiny, according to a providential plan which we can logically divine and understand.
When work in progress is shared (as my father did with me), we were both able to improve it, I as the observer might have had an idea that my father as constructor didn't and after some discussion and experimentation, who knows, maybe together, we created something better, just because we shared.