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progressive

adjective
  1. advancing in severity
    “progressive paralysis”
  2. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
    reformistreform-minded
  3. (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
    “progressive euchre”
  4. favoring or promoting progress
    “progressive schools”
  5. of taxes, adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
    “The legislator believed that progressive taxation was the fairest way to distribute the costs of society.”
  6. gradually advancing in extent
noun
  1. a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
    liberalliberalist
  2. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
    imperfectprogressive tenseimperfect tensecontinuous tense