Usually means: Progress or action has started.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word underway:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. underway: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. underway: Merriam-Webster
  3. underway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. underway: Vocabulary.com
  5. Underway, underway: Wordnik
  6. underway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. underway: Wiktionary
  8. underway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. underway: Dictionary.com
  10. underway (adv.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. underway: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Underway: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. underway: Rhymezone
  14. underway: FreeDictionary.org
  15. underway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. underway: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underway: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underway: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. UNDERWAY: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Underway, Underway: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In motion, in progress; being done or carried out; on a journey.
noun:  A road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle; an underpass.
noun:  An underground passage, subway, tunnel.
noun:  A voyage, especially underwater.

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