work in progress

See also: work-in-progress

English

Alternative forms

• work-in-progress (adjective)

Noun

work in progress (countable and uncountable, plural works in progress)

1. (uncountable) Work that has been started, but is not complete.

   All the efforts to make a New Man are still work in progress.

2. (countable) A project that has been started but is not complete.

   Reorganizing my office is a work in progress.

   • 2018 November 3, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     They remain a work in progress but in a match many felt would see the new Arsenal's flaws exposed, Emery and his players can regard this as a highly satisfactory result and performance.

3. (uncountable, accounting) A portion of inventory that represents goods which are no longer salable as raw materials, but not yet salable as finished goods, work in process.

   Work in progress has dramatically declined due to reduced production cycle times.

Usage notes

• Often used as an apology for something not meeting a standard of completeness or perfection.

  This online dictionary is a work in progress.

Synonyms

• work in process

Hypernyms

• work

Translations

work

• Dutch: werk in uitvoering
• Finnish: kesken (fi) (adverb)

• German: laufende Arbeiten, in Bearbeitung
• Spanish: trabajando en ello

project

• Finnish: keskeneräinen työ, kesken (fi) (adverb)

accounting: value of unfinished goods

• Finnish: keskeneräinen tuotanto

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} travail en cours (1 and 2)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} lavori in corso

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} trabajando en ello

See also

• beta
• WIP