Etymology
From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.
Adjective
ongoing (not comparable)
- Continuing, permanent, lasting.
2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 50:"Major refurbishments will be made over the next ten years. We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says.
- Presently or currently happening; being in progress.
Translations
continuing, permanent
- Bulgarian: продължаващ (bg) (prodǎlžavašt)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: jatkuva (fi)
- French: continuel (fr), permanent (fr), continu (fr)
- Galician: continuo (gl) m
- German: ständig (de), permanent (de), andauernd (de), anhaltend (de), immerwährend (de), fortlaufend (de)
- Italian: continuo (it)
- Korean: 지속적인 (jisokjeogin)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pågående (no), løpende (no)
- Polish: w toku
- Portuguese: contínuo (pt), em curso, em andamento
- Romanian: neîntrerupt (ro), continuu (ro), necontenit (ro)
- Russian: постоя́нный (ru) (postojánnyj), непреры́вный (ru) (neprerývnyj), продолжа́ющийся (ru) (prodolžájuščijsja)
- Spanish: continuo (es), continuante
- Ukrainian: безпере́рвний (uk) (bezperérvnyj), безупи́нний (uk) (bezupýnnyj)
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presently or currently happening; being in progress
- Bulgarian: в процес на (v proces na)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 進行中的 / 进行中的 (jìnxíng zhōng de)
- Danish: igangværende
- Dutch: lopend (nl), in uitvoering
- Finnish: meneillään oleva
- French: actuel (fr), en cours (fr)
- Galician: actual (gl) m or f
- German: laufend (de), gegenwärtig stattfindend, derzeitig stattfindend
- Italian: attuale (it), in corso
- Korean: 진행중인 (jinhaengjung'in)
- Maori: moroki
- 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), en progreso, en curso, en desarrollo, presente (es), corriente (es), andante (es), transcurriente, en marcha
- Swedish: pågående (sv)
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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.
Translations
something that is going on
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: tapahtuma (fi)
- Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
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