ongoing

English

Alternative forms

• on-going (nonstandard)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ɔnˈɡəwɪŋ/
• (Northern US or cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑnˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/

  • Audio (US); /ɑnˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/:

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• (Southern US, Midland US, without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɔnˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ɔnˈɡəʉ.ɪŋ/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɒnˈɡɐʉ.əŋ/, [ɔ̟nˈɡɐʉ̯.əŋ]
• (Northern England, Midlands, without the ng-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋɡ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɔnˈɡo.ɪŋ/
• (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA^(key): /ɒnˈɡoː.ɪŋ/

Adjective

ongoing (not comparable)

1. Continuing, permanent, lasting.
   • 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 50:

     "Major refurbishments will be made over the next ten years. We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says.

2. Presently or currently happening; being in progress.

Derived terms

• ongoing covid
• ongoingly
• ongoingness

Translations

continuing, permanent

• Bulgarian: продължаващ (bg) (prodălžavašt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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

  Bokmål: pågående (no), løpende (no)

• Polish: w toku
• Portuguese: contínuo (pt), em curso, em andamento
• Romanian: neîntrerupt (ro), continuu (ro), necontenit (ro)
• Russian: постоя́нный (ru) (postojánnyj), непреры́вный (ru) (neprerývnyj), продолжа́ющийся (ru) (prodolžájuščijsja)
• Spanish: continuo (es), continuante
• Ukrainian: безпере́рвний (uk) (bezperérvnyj), безупи́нний (uk) (bezupýnnyj)

presently or currently happening; being in progress

• Bulgarian: в процес на (v proces na)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 進行中的 / 进行中的 (jìnxíng zhōng de)

• Danish: igangværende
• Dutch: lopend (nl), in uitvoering
• Finnish: meneillään oleva
• French: actuel (fr), en cours (fr)
• Galician: actual (gl) m or f
• German: laufend (de), gegenwärtig stattfindend, derzeitig stattfindend
• Italian: attuale (it), in corso
• Korean: 진행중인 (jinhaengjung'in)
• Māori: moroki
• 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), en progreso, en curso, en desarrollo, presente (es), corriente (es), andante (es), transcurriente, en marcha
• 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.

Translations

something that is going on

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: tapahtuma (fi)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

ongoing

1. (rare) present participle and gerund of ongo

Anagrams

• going on