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What does make headway mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To progress; to move forward.
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We hope he will also join with us in urging the Lib Dem executive to now make headway on just such an initiative.
He was slow to acquire the transactional skills that a conductor needs to make headway the orchestra.
A few feet away from the landing, as the vessel began to make headway, it started to trim rapidly by the bow.
We need to make headway in fighting this horrible disease, here at home, in Africa, and everywhere in between.
The WTO talks also need to make headway this year so that 2004 does not end up wasted and the negotiations put off until the Greek Kalends.
You do not want to make headway or sternway but simply pivot with a continuous motion.

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