ongoing
Adjective
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Adjective
ongoing (not comparable)
- Continuing, permanent, lasting.
- 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."
- 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91 ↗," Rolling Stone
- French: continuel, permanent, continu
- German: ständig, permanent, andauernd, anhaltend, immerwährend, fortlaufend
- Italian: continuo
- Portuguese: contínuo, em curso
- Russian: постоя́нный
- Spanish: continuo
- French: actuel, en cours
- German: laufend, gegenwärtig stattfindend, derzeitig stattfindend
- Italian: attuale
- Portuguese: em andamento, corrente, em curso
- Russian: происходить
- Spanish: actual
ongoing (plural ongoings)
- 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.
- 1961, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure
- (rare) present participle of ongo#English|ongo
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