make headway

Questions about make headway

What does make headway mean?

make headway means "obtain advantages, such as points, etc.".

What is another word for make headway?

Close synonyms include gain, advance, win, pull ahead, get ahead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is make headway a common word?

make headway is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.