ongoing

Something that is going on; a happening.

Adjective

  1. Continuing, permanent, lasting.
    • "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. - 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian...
  2. Presently or currently happening; being in progress.

Origin

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

Forms

on-going

Derived

ongoing covid ongoingly ongoingness

Noun

  1. Something that is going on; a happening.
    • 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,...

Forms

ongoings on-going

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of ongo

Forms

on-going