1 in favour of new ideas, modern methods and change:
progressive schools * The approach taken by US courts has been more progressive than that in Britain.
OPPRETROGRESSIVE
2 happening or developing steadily:
a progressive reduction in the size of the workforce * a progressive muscular disease
3 (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.
progressivism noun [U]:
political progressivism
noun [usuallypl.] a person who is in favour of new ideas, modern methods and change:
political battles between progressives and conservatives
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