0 developing or happening gradually: --
1 Progressive ideas or systems are new and modern, encouraging change in society or in the way that things are done: --
2 A progressive tax system is one in which the rate of tax is higher on larger amounts of money. --
3 The progressive form of a verb is used to show that the action is continuing. It is formed with the verb "be" followed by the present participle (= -ing form of the verb): --
4 used to describe a lens (= a curved piece of glass) that allows you to see things clearly at different distances: --
5 a person who supports new ideas and social change, especially one who belongs to a political party --
We progressives believe strongly in going ahead, but then we have to retreat to "practical politics".
I have not devoted a great deal of attention to the battle between what is loosely called the moral majority and the progressives.
Statives, progressives, and habituals: analogies and differences.
Their local or metropolitan efforts at market management can be compared to the progressives' endeavors aimed at the same goal on the state and national levels.
By contrast, the interpretative use increases from 3 per cent to 5 per cent of all progressives, while potentially experiential uses expand from 10 per cent to 17 per cent.
We would argue that such overuse is not surprising, given that instructional materials implicitly suggest that progressives are more important (and far more common) than they actually are.
On the state of progress on progressives and statives.
In order to meet the needs and concerns of such families, progressives must try to emulate the success of social conservatives in the 1970s and 1980s.
