work-in-progress
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noun
accounting the value of work begun but not completed, as shown in a profit-and-loss account
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How to use work-in-progress in a sentence
“Rather than the finalized models, we display the experimental work-in-progress ones,” Migarou says.
On the first night of previews, a work-in-progress feel is to be expected.
This is a work-in-progress; it didn't come out just as I wanted.
It won 2008's J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize.