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Webster 1913 Edition

Ongoing

On′goˊing

,

Noun.

The act of going forward; progress; (

pl.

) affairs; business; current events.

The common

ongoings

of this our commonplace world, and everyday life.

Prof. Wilson.

Definition 2025

ongoing

ongoing

English

Adjective

ongoing ‎(comparative more ongoing, superlative most ongoing)

continuing, permanent
presently or currently happening; being in progress

Translations

continuing, permanent

Finnish: jatkuva (fi)
French: continuel (fr), permanent (fr), continu (fr)
German: ständig (de), permanent (de), andauernd (de), anhaltend (de), immerwährend, fortlaufend (de)
Italian: continuo (it)
Korean: 지속적인 ‎(jisokjeogin)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: pågå
Polish: w toku
Portuguese: contínuo (pt), em curso
Romanian: neîntrerupt (ro), continuu (ro), necontenit (ro)
Russian: постоя́нный (ru) ‎(postojánnyj), непреры́вный (ru) ‎(neprerývnyj), продолжа́ющийся (ru) ‎(prodolžájuščijsja)
Spanish: continuo (es)

presently or currently happening; being in progress

Dutch: lopend (nl)
Finnish: meneillään oleva
French: actuel (fr), en cours (fr)
German: laufend (de), gegenwärtig stattfindend, derzeitig stattfindend
Italian: attuale (it)
Korean: 진행중인 ‎(jinhaengjung-in)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: pågående (no)
Polish: w toku
Portuguese: em andamento, corrente (pt), em curso
Russian: происходя́щий в настоя́щее вре́мя ‎(proisxodjáščij v nastojáščeje vrémja)
Spanish: actual (es)
Swedish: pågående (sv)

Noun

ongoing ‎(plural ongoings)

Something that is going on; a happening.
- 1961, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure
  We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.

Anagrams

going on