phrasal verb · neutral

make headway

/meɪk ˈhɛdweɪ/make HEAD·way

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to begin to make progress, especially after being stuck or delayed

Examples

Negotiators finally made headway after the mediator joined the talks.

The project is starting to make headway despite earlier setbacks.

It took months, but we are finally making headway with the research.

Band 8 sentence

After months of bureaucratic delays, the team finally made headway with the funding application.

Collocations

  • make headway on a project
  • make headway with negotiations

Word family

make headway phrasal verbmade headway pastmaking headway gerund/participle

Common mistakes

make a headwaymake headway

make headway to the projectmake headway on the project

we made headwayswe made headway

Say it for a higher band

5improve6make progress7+make headway

Synonyms

make progress

Easily confused

make progress

After weeks of delays, the team finally made headway.

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