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What does work in progress mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word work in progress? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) Work that has been started, but is not complete.
  2. (countable) A project that has been started but is not complete.
  3. (uncountable, accounting) A portion of inventory that represents goods which are no longer salable as raw materials, but not yet salable as finished goods, work in process.
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At the Daly mine they observed work in progress on the tunnel being driven about forty metres below the old workings.
The script changed from moment to moment, it was always a work in progress, day after day, after day.
The presence of empty, but ruled, folios at the end of the volume suggests that FVB was a work in progress.
These folders were used to store the sketch, tracing paper, felt, burlap and any other work in progress for the length of this lesson.
The whole question of appraisals, performance, development, review to be improved, I think, again, it is an example of work in progress.
The new footpaths and some work on removing overhead cables was helpful and the adjudicators took note of the work in progress on the kerbsides.

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