make headway

English

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Verb

make headway (third-person singular simple present makes headway, present participle making headway, simple past and past participle made headway)

1. (idiomatic) To progress; to move forward.

   I worked on them all day, but barely made headway at all.

Translations

progress

• Latin: prōficiō
• Portuguese: abrir caminho

See also

• make way