work in progress

1. 1.

   a piece of work that is not yet finished

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Questions about work in progress

What does work in progress mean?

work in progress means "a piece of work that is not yet finished".

Is work in progress a common word?

work in progress 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.