0 to start to have a direct and noticeable effect (on something): --
We have not been able to make much of an inroad into the backlog of work.
The government is definitely making inroads into the problem of unemployment.
1 something that has a noticeable and positive effect on something you are trying to achieve: --
2 to start to have a noticeable and positive effect on something: --
The article concludes that while the opposition improved on its 1992 performance, its inroads were actually fairly limited.
However, where inroads have been made, associational autonomy from the state and dominant party has proved critical.
Both these works make invaluable inroads into this highly rich and difficult terrain.
I understand pedagogy as a wide, sometimes rather fuzzy field, with many possible inroads to atomising children, services for children and the workforce.
Hybrid cultures and transnational media organizations have made significant inroads into national cultures and national identities.
Ties of affection and a caring debt make no inroads into inheritance practices.
One linguistic area where computers have made important inroads is the compiling of dictionaries.
By then the battle against competitions, and by extension, against corporate inroads into the profession, had been lost.
