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Definition of "work in progress" []

  • A yet incomplete artistic, theatrical, or musical work, often made available for public viewing or listening. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "work in progress" in a sentence
  • "Moving from prescribed dogma to a truth-based approach to life has been a work in progress for me."
  • "Beholding the work in progress in the meadow, the row of shrouded bodies, the last of them just brought forth and laid beside the rest, and the chaplain, drooping and disconsolate, stumbling after, the driver of the cart, blithely ignoring the guards at the gate, turned his team aside, and made straight for the place of burial."
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