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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ongoing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ongoing debate (=still continuing)
▪ This is unlikely to be the final word in this ongoing debate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
battle
▪ One suspects that the David and Goliath nature of their ongoing battle may have swayed the decision further in Virgin's direction.
▪ Blame it on the ongoing battle over commissions between the agencies and the airlines.
▪ A mere lull, she told herself, smiling, in an ongoing battle.
▪ They were like set pieces in their ongoing battle that these days was devoid of any real malice.
business
▪ Reengineering offered a technical fix for what were seen as lapses in the smooth operation of ongoing business processes.
debate
▪ Driving the process was the ongoing debate over what might be the very best face Lisa could put forth.
▪ An ongoing debate among those who ponder fashion has been whether dresses, suits and blouses can be considered art.
▪ Those on the other side of this ongoing debate fare little better.
▪ It also provides a way of showing economic research in action by sketching the ongoing debate.
investigation
▪ Files of ongoing investigations already are sealed.
▪ Eugene Watts, R-Galloway, and three lobbying groups also were indicted in the ongoing investigation.
▪ The names of the other males were not released, Trujillo said, because of an ongoing investigation.
negotiation
▪ In practice, the amount of Creole used in any interaction is the subject of ongoing negotiation among the parties themselves.
▪ This led to ongoing negotiations regarding the school board engaging me as a consultant to conduct inservice career development seminars.
problem
▪ Rapid siltation at Aswan is also a major ongoing problem.
▪ Probation officers and those who treat juvenile offenders within the community say violence is an ongoing problem in the three lockups.
▪ The ongoing problem with the live-virus vaccine, however, is that it carries a small but predictable risk of paralytic polio.
process
▪ That is just the intensification, the high point of an ongoing process.
▪ This ongoing process begins with the first step through which the alcoholic admits to his or her powerlessness over alcohol.
▪ It would be unrealistic therefore to see implementation as an event but more as an ongoing process of experimentation and development.
▪ The natural change in sleep length and quality from infancy to old age is a gradual, ongoing process.
▪ Empowerment education for change - personal, educational or socio-economic - is an ongoing process that demands time and continued commitment.
▪ Appraisals will be changed from once-a-year events to ongoing processes with short formal reviews every quarter or six months.
▪ The measure was seen as part of an ongoing process designed to increase the reliability of both police and Army units.
▪ If the company fails to treat consultation as an ongoing process, it may be treating you unfairly.
project
▪ So much for the comfort of inheriting successful ongoing projects.
▪ I make the wood-making an ongoing project, to be done for fun, and drag it out for weeks.
▪ The latter take longer to learn and are intended for those involved in larger, ongoing projects.
▪ Children rapidly scramble to all types of activities and ongoing projects.
▪ Along with daily stories, we had ongoing projects on which reporters worked.
research
▪ A somatostatin scan was performed as part of an ongoing research project because the diagnosis sarcoidosis was considered.
▪ In truth, much of the ongoing research in neural networks today is involved with learning.
▪ These and other possibilities are now the focus of ongoing research.
▪ Marine surveys to underpin research A number of ongoing research programmes underpin Core programmes of offshore investigations.
struggle
▪ She was strict, but in the ongoing struggle between children and adults she sided with the children.
▪ Within that ruling coalition was an ongoing struggle between two powerful factions.
▪ That legislation was a cultural and political watershed; our country was still deluged with headline news detailing the ongoing struggle.
work
▪ In the case of ongoing work stress, after a while this combat alert begins to take its toll.
▪ Proceeds from the sale of these corporate-generated materials support the ongoing work of the foundation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an ongoing partnership
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Make sure that the provider offers documentation, consultation, and ongoing support.
▪ Only in the mid-199Os did efforts to reconcile differences and reduce the ongoing violence achieve some success.
▪ The rejuvenated energy of the live show is a good pointer to Carter's ongoing enthusiasm.
▪ Therefore all ongoing programming is in your hands.
▪ They were like set pieces in their ongoing battle that these days was devoid of any real malice.
▪ We all pass through this life as damaged goods, and the repair work is ongoing.
▪ You could create an ongoing system by continually updating the network and removing old data.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ongoing

ongoing \on"go`ing\, a. Occurring at present; progressing; in progress; continuing; not past, completed, or future; as, an ongoing petition drive; an ongoing effort.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ongoing

also on-going, 1877, from on + going (see go).

Wiktionary
ongoing

a. 1 continuing, permanent 2 presently or currently happening; being in progress n. Something that is going on; a happening.

WordNet
ongoing

adj. currently happening; "an ongoing economic crisis"; "negotiations are in progress" [syn: in progress(p)]

Usage examples of "ongoing".

This second investigation, also ongoing during the fall of 1992, would have put agents within striking distance of other blind Sheikh cohorts who were engaged in paramilitary training sessions and gunrunning.

As noted, during the time an OPR probe was ongoing, agents were ineligible for promotions or requested transfers.

Nevertheless, the constant feasting and orgies of the rude Gallic troops at the sacrificial banquets were an ongoing scandal to the refined and delicate Antiochians, who night after night suffered drunken, carousing foreign soldiers rampaging through their streets, and were unable to hide their resentment.

Despite the ongoing telephone contact with Governor Barnett and his representatives, it not only appeared as if the state government was going to continue its rebellion, 96AN AMERICAN INSURRECTION but FBI intelligence was indicating that the state would be supported in the streets by untold thousands of civilian volunteers from across the country.

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It is an ongoing struggle to find and maintain identity, However, when identity appears in the cohesive properties of the Nazi biomedical vision, the answer to the question diminishes, if not altogether represses, the underlying fragmentation anxiety of each individual member of the group.

As you know, we have begun our process of eliminating dogs, but as the eradication of all pets is our ultimate goal and part of our ongoing effort to bring Corban into the Bonita Vista family, it has been suggested that we begin killing cats.

The raging snarl of upset lane force had overstressed the tuned concentration Sethvir needed to refine broadscale vision, and sort the array of ongoing event that influenced the fate of Athera.

Asterion and Daedalus explained a little more of the ongoing problem between the gods and the Giants, until I began to understand why even Zeus was fearful.

They were being given all necessary assistance, so I waved to Ted and Mits and got into Miss Agnes and drove off eastward toward the coast, wondering if this would become one of the ongoing legends and be distorted out of all relation with reality.

Jones was Grady Morant, his unit had gotten ambushed in an ongoing silent war that the United States was waging against a powerful Southeast Asian druglord.

It is just that when I was biofactured, my cells and systems were nanoteched with an ongoing form of Poulsen treatments so that I am essentially resistant to aging and disease.

Stark scanned his Tactical display one more time, noting the lack of ongoing combat, then unsealed his own face shield and raised it so he could speak directly to the soldiers in the room with him.

This privatization was an ongoing thing throughout the Republic, and was usually effected through the censors, praetors, aediles and quaestors.

The US Airforce and Navy and DARPA have an ongoing enthusiasm for neural modeling, the computer games of connection-ism.