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progressive
(pr/@/'gr/E/s/I/v
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adjective (a)
- favoring or promoting progress(adj.all)Example:
Progressive schools.
source: wordnet30 - (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases(adj.all)source: wordnet30
- Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.(adjective)source: webster1913
- Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (n)
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going(noun.linkdef)source: wordnet30
- a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties(noun.person)source: wordnet30
adjective satellite (s)
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)(adj.all)source: wordnet30
- gradually advancing in extent(adj.all)source: wordnet30
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position(adj.all)Example:
Progressive euchre.
Progressive tournaments.
source: wordnet30 - advancing in severity(adj.all)Example:
Progressive paralysis.
source: wordnet30
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