phrasal verb · formal

get underway

UK/ɡet ˌʌndəˈweɪ/US/ɡet ˌʌndərˈweɪ/get un·der·WAY

task2speaking

to begin, especially referring to a project, campaign or official activity.

Examples

After months of planning, the renovation project finally got underway in May.

Once funding was secured, the programme got underway without delay.

The talks got underway this morning at nine.

Band 8 sentence

By the time funding was approved, the regeneration scheme had already got underway in several districts.

Collocations

  • get underway + project / campaign / talks
  • get underway + without delay

Word family

get / got / getting verbunderway adjective

Common mistakes

We get underway the project last month.The project got underway last month.

Say it for a higher band

5start6begin7+get underway

Synonyms

start

commence

Easily confused

start

They started the programme in January.

Related words

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