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Ongoing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Currently taking place: an ongoing festival.

adj. In progress or evolving.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. continuing, permanent

adj. presently or currently happening; being in progress

n. Something that is going on; a happening.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events.

adj. Occurring at present; progressing; in progress; continuing; not past, completed, or future.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Advance; the act of advancing; progression.

n. plural Proceedings; goings-on.

Progressing; proceeding; not intermitting.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. currently happening

Word Usage

"I want to take an opportunity to highlight the fact that starting this quarter, we are using non-GAAP rather the phrase ongoing to describe the results of our operations that we feel are relevant for comparing the company's operating performance."

Equivalent

current

Antonym

past completed future

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

progress business progressing continuing

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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