Progress is the process of gradually improving or getting nearer to achieving or completing something.

The progress of a situation or action is the way in which it develops.

To progress means to move over a period of time to a stronger, more advanced, or more desirable state.

If events progress, they continue to happen gradually over a period of time.

If you progress something, you cause it to develop.

If something is in progress, it has started and is still continuing.