headway
1- forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- progress in general: headway in a career.
- rate of progress: a slight headway against concerted opposition.
- the time interval or distance between two vehicles, as automobiles, ships, or railroad or subway cars, traveling in the same direction over the same route.
- make headway, to proceed forward; advance; progress.
Origin of headway
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advancement, advance, march, progression, improvement, increase, proficiency, way, promotion, ground, anabasisExamples from the Web for headway
Contemporary Examples of headway
McCain and Graham also had a long meeting with Burns Tuesday, but McCain declined to say whether Burns was making any headway.
He was performing the task during a royal visit to Headway, a charity that helps people with brain injuries.
We've both been struggling with unemployment and underemployment, and we're just now starting to make some headway.
Even as U.S./NATO forces make some headway here and there, little comes in behind them to solidify gains.
Even Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has made some headway here.
Historical Examples of headway
For a time he had seemed to make no headway against his hill-born appetite.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Would we—make any—headway, sir, with the schooner's—light machinery?
The Cruise of the Dry DockT. S. Stribling
Over on Iverak the Serbians had succeeded in making some headway.
With the people of the country of her adoption, whether Jews or Moors, she made no headway.
The ScapegoatHall Caine
The headway of the skiff was slow, but my efforts were not silent.
headway
- motion in a forward directionthe vessel made no headway
- progress or rate of progresshe made no headway with the problem
- another name for headroom
- the distance or time between consecutive trains, buses, etc, on the same route
Word Origin and History for headway
Idioms and Phrases with headway
headway
see make headway.