ongoing

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

ongoing (not comparable)

1. continuing, permanent
2. presently or currently happening; being in progress
   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     The iconic "Playboy Interview" feature launched in 1962 with future Roots author Alex Haley interviewing Miles Davis (Hefner was a huge jazz aficionado and later founded the Playboy Jazz Festival) and would eventually feature many luminaries, setting the stage for the ongoing joke, "We really read Playboy for the articles."

Translations

continuing, permanent

• Finnish: jatkuva (fi)
• French: continuel (fr), permanent (fr), continu (fr)
• German: ständig (de), permanent (de), andauernd (de), anhaltend (de), immerwährend, fortlaufend (de)
• Italian: continuo (it)
• Korean: 지속적인 (jisokjeogin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pågå

• Polish: w toku
• Portuguese: contínuo (pt), em curso
• Romanian: neîntrerupt (ro), continuu (ro), necontenit (ro)
• Russian: постоя́нный (ru) (postojánnyj), непреры́вный (ru) (neprerývnyj), продолжа́ющийся (ru) (prodolžájuščijsja)
• Spanish: continuo (es)

presently or currently happening; being in progress

• Dutch: lopend (nl)
• Finnish: meneillään oleva
• French: actuel (fr), en cours (fr)
• German: laufend (de), gegenwärtig stattfindend, derzeitig stattfindend
• Italian: attuale (it)
• Korean: 진행중인 (jinhaengjung-in)
• 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)
• Swedish: pågående (sv)

Noun

ongoing (plural ongoings)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• going on