Noun

Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress .

Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.

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Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 124:

With the king about to go on progress , the trials and executions were deliberately timed.

* 1887 , (Thomas Hardy), The Woodlanders :

Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.

The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.