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progressiveness

/pruh-gres-iv/US // prəˈgrɛs ɪv //UK // (prəˈɡrɛsɪv) //

渐进性,进步性,进展性,渐进式

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
    • : making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.: a progressive community.
    • : characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement.
    • : Progressive, of or relating to any of the Progressive parties in politics.
    • : going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.
    • : noting or pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income.
    • : of or relating to progressive education: progressive schools.
    • : Grammar. noting a verb aspect or other verb category that indicates action or state going on at a temporal point of reference.
    • : Medicine/Medical. continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, especially in political matters.
    • : Progressive, a member of a Progressive party.
    • : Grammar. the progressive aspect.a verb form or construction in the progressive, as are thinking in They are thinking about it.

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Examples

  • She said she is running for her third term in order to continue pushing for progressive change in her state.

  • The state keeps electing Democrats, she writes, but that doesn’t mean actual policies are getting more progressive.

  • A progressive and advocate for laborers’ rights, Bernstein is currently serving as a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

  • There will be pressure to move quickly on a more progressive agenda, but moving any new dollars outside the traditional budget process — in June — will require the support of at least one Republican.

  • For his research, he contracted with Catalist, a vendor that buys voter registration data from states, cleans it, and sells it to the Democratic Party and progressive groups.

  • Years later, he got a high-profile job at Mozilla, a tech company in a professional community noted for its progressiveness.

  • In this mood, Democrats may care a lot more about toughness and combativeness than about minute gradations of progressiveness.

  • It tries for progressiveness and ends up being ... achingly middle of the road.

  • The words Progress and Progressiveness are not here to be understood as synonymous with improvement and tendency to improvement.

  • The account proceeds with a thoughtful deliberation and river-like momentum of progressiveness.

  • Mr. Ferrel has always been actuated by a spirit of enterprise and progressiveness in anything that he has undertaken.

  • Outside of milling circles Mr. Isaacs was perhaps best known by reason of his public spirit and his progressiveness.

  • Our country has been unprecedentedly developed in consequence of the energy and progressiveness of its railway managers.