progressionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/prəˈɡreʃ.ən/us/prəˈɡreʃ.ən/C1 the act of changing to the next stage of development:
Drugs can slow down the progression of the disease.
The novel follows the progression of a woman from youth to middle age.
She'd always worked with old people so becoming a nurse was a logical/natural progression.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- rise
- shape
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
- streak ahead
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