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Continuing, permanent, lasting. quotations examples
"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 wonder”, in Rail, page 50
Presently or currently happening; being in progress. examples
plural ongoings
Something that is going on; a happening. quotations examples
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, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure
(rare) present participle and gerund of ongo