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ongoing

UK/ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/

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British/ɔnˈɡəwɪŋ/

ongoing adjective: continuing, permanent, lasting. Also the present participle and gerund of ongo.

Adjective

ongoing (not comparable)

  1. Continuing, permanent, lasting.
    • "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.2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 50
  2. Presently or currently happening; being in progress.

Noun

ongoing (plural ongoings)

  1. Something that is going on; a happening.
    • 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.1961, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure

Also used as

ongoing is also the present participle and gerund of ongo.

ongoing meaning in Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam and Gujarati

ongoing in Marathi

चालू आहे

ongoing in Telugu

కొనసాగుతున్నది, కొనసాగుతున్న

ongoing in Malayalam

നടന്നുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു, നടന്നുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന

ongoing in Gujarati

ચાલુ છે
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ongoing in Odia
ଚାଲୁ ରହିଛି

Examples of ongoing in a sentence

  • The score bug displays the current football score over the ongoing match.
  • The ongoing evolution of Lolita subculture fashion includes, among other things, the ballet style.
  • The philanthropic endowment that she bequeathed gave her an ongoing afterlife.

All 40 example sentences with ongoing

Forms of ongoing

Adjective
alternative form (nonstandard)on-going
Noun
pluralongoings

Origin of ongoing

From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.

Words formed from ongoing

Questions about ongoing

What does ongoing mean?
Ongoing means continuing, permanent, lasting.
What is ongoing in Marathi?
Ongoing in Marathi is चालू आहे. See Ongoing meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is ongoing?
Ongoing can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce ongoing?
Ongoing is pronounced /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near ongoing in the dictionary

  1. Ongnam
  2. ongo
  3. ongoer
  4. ongoers
  5. ongoes
  6. ongoing
  7. ongoing covid
  8. ongoingly
  9. ongoingness
  10. ongoings
  11. Ongole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ongoing (page history and authors); ongoing (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ongoing (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ongoing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ongoing (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ongoing (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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