phrasal verb · neutral
make headway
/meɪk ˈhɛdweɪ/make HEAD·way
speakingtask2
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 headway→make headway
make headway to the project→make headway on the project
we made headways→we made headway
Say it for a higher band
5improve→6make progress→7+make headway
Synonyms
make progress
Easily confused
make progress
“After weeks of delays, the team finally made headway.”
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