Definition of "progress"

Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 60

... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ...

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848

With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.

2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 124

Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887

Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.

2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport‎

Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.

2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 266