- in favour of new ideas, modern methods and change
- progressive schools
Extra Examples- Are you in favour of progressive teaching methods?
- He is progressive, open-minded, and sincerely concerned with civil-rights struggles.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- highly
- truly
- very
- …
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- happening or developing steadily
- a progressive reduction in the size of the workforce
- a progressive muscular disease
- (also continuous)(grammar) connected with the form of a verb (for example I am waiting or It is raining) that is made from a part of be and the present participle. Progressive forms are used to express an action that continues for a period of time.Topics Languageb1
- (of a tax) at a higher percentage as the total amount of money being taxed increases
- Supporters of a progressive income tax argue that it is fairer.
- The government made the tax more progressive, ensuring that higher earners pay more.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French progressif, -ive or medieval Latin progressivus, from progress- ‘gone forward’, from the verb progredi, from pro- ‘forward’ + gradi ‘to walk’.
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