progressiveadjective
uk/prəˈɡres.ɪv/us/prəˈɡres.ɪv/progressive adjective (GRADUAL)
C1 developing or happening gradually:
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- Summerhill school is noted for its progressive policies.
- The last few months have seen the progressive meltdown of the country's political system.
- The progressive form is often referred to as the continuous form of the verb.
- We are currently witnessing a progressive decline in the number of students entering higher education.
- The area has suffered a progressive reduction in house prices.
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Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- rise
- shape
- simmer
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
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progressive adjective (MODERN)
B2 Progressive ideas or systems are new and modern, encouraging change in society or in the way that things are done:
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Modern & fashionable
- be (all) the rage idiom
- be having a moment idiom
- be the last word in sth idiom
- be the new sth idiom
- futuristic
- get with the programme idiom
- happening
- high-tech
- hip
- hipster
- minute 1
- programme
- sharp
- smart
- space-age
- state-of-the-art
- street cred
- swinger
- swinging
- à la mode
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progressive adjective (TAX)
finance & economics A progressive tax system is one in which the rate of tax is higher on larger amounts of money.
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Taxation
- capital gains tax
- capitation
- chargeable
- corporation tax
- custom
- indirect tax
- inheritance tax
- levy
- National Insurance
- octroi
- tax allowance
- tax avoidance
- tax break
- tax credit
- tax exile
- tax-deductible
- vat
- VATable
- welfare state
- withholding tax
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progressive adjective (GRAMMAR)
language The progressive form of a verb is used to show that the action is continuing. It is formed with the verb "be" followed by the present participle (= -ing form of the verb):
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- accusative
- arose
- art
- aspect
- began
- bent
- ditransitive
- historic present
- linking verb
- main verb
- passivize
- past participle
- predicate
- the future perfect
- the past continuous
- the pluperfect
- the present simple
- the third person
- transitive
- wast
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progressivenoun [ C ]
uk/prəˈɡres.ɪv/us/prəˈɡres.ɪv/politics a person who supports new ideas and social change, especially one who belongs to a political party
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Politics - general words
- a political football idiom
- apolitical
- communism
- con
- conservative
- leftist
- Leninism
- Lib Dem
- liberal
- Liberal Democrats
- political science
- politicize
- politics
- polity
- populism
- the Liberal Party
- the National Front
- the Third Way
- Tory
- tour of duty
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