underway
See also: under way
English
Etymology 1
Calque of Dutch onderweg (“underway”), equivalent to under- + way. Compare also German unterwegs.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈweɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
Adverb
underway (comparative more underway, superlative most underway)
- In motion, in progress; being done or carried out; on a journey.
- 2018 April 7, Andrew Dickinson, “In New Hampshire, the 2020 presidential race is already well underway”, in NBC News, retrieved 2018-09-20:
- The political world might still be recovering from the 2016 presidential election and focusing now on the midterm fights for Congress, but here in the nation's first primary state the battle for 2020 is already well underway.
Translations
in motion, in progress; being done or carried out
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʌndə(ɹ)weɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
underway (plural underways)
- A road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle; an underpass.
- An underground passage, subway, tunnel.
- A voyage, especially underwater.
- 2008, Alfred Scott McLaren, William R. Anderson, “To Severnaya Zemlya and the Beginning of the Shelf Survey”, in Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651), Univ. of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 179:
- I had been the diving officer on three previous submarines, …, and was an experienced officer of the deck with many underways and landings under my belt on all three.
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