work-in-progress

noun

1. accounting the value of work begun but not completed, as shown in a profit-and-loss account

Example Sentences

I played a work-in-progress version of the game when I visited Sports Interactive in October, and since then, I've been playing a "beta" version.

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Guests heard the band’s newest work-in-progress while wearing blindfolds.

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His slider was a work-in-progress, leaving him without a reliable third pitch.

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Nonetheless, overall results show that achievement — as measured by test scores — in the nation’s second-largest school system remains a work-in-progress.

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“The woman wondered what she had gotten herself into” is the opening line of Carrie Bradshaw’s latest work-in-progress, a novel set in 1846.

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