under way

1. 1.

   in motion; set in motion

   “the ship got under way”

Questions about under way

What does under way mean?

under way means "in motion; set in motion".

Is under way a common word?

under way is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.