Usually means: Advocating for social reform, change.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. progressive, the progressive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. progressive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. progressive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. progressive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. progressive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Progressive, progressive: Wordnik
  7. progressive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Progressive, progressive: Wiktionary
  9. progressive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. progressive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. progressive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. progressive: Dictionary.com
  13. progressive (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. progressive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Progressive (Kalafina single), Progressive (insurance company), Progressive, The Progressive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Progressive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. progressive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. progressive: Rhymezone
  19. progressive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. progressive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. progressive: Free Dictionary
  22. progressive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. progressive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. progressive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. progressive: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. progressive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Progressive: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. progressive: Medical dictionary
  5. Progressive: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. progressive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Keno Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Progressive: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
adjective:  Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
adjective:  Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
adjective:  (politics) Liberal.
adjective:  (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
adjective:  (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
adjective:  Advancing in severity.
adjective:  (grammar) Continuous.
noun:  A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
noun:  (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
adjective:  Belonging to or supporting a Progressive Party.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to such a party, its policies, or its membership.
noun:  A member or supporter of a Progressive Party.

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