Progressive \Pro*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. progressif.] 1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to {retrograde}.
2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
3. (U. S. History) Of or pertaining to the Progressive party. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. Favoring improvement, change, progress, or reform, especially in a political context; -- used of people. Contrasted with {conservative}. [PJC]
Note: The term progressive is sometimes used to describe the views of a politician, where {liberal} might have been used at one time, in communities where the term liberal has come to connote extreme views. [PJC]
5. Disposed toward adopting new methods in government or education, holding tolerant and liberal ideas, and generally favoring improvement in civic life; -- of towns and communities. [PJC]
{Progressive euchre} or {Progressive whist}, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table.
{Progressive muscular atrophy} (Med.), a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. ※ -- {Pro*gress"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Pro*gress"ive*ness}, n.
The affair will raise money to further research and help victims of retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary retinal disease that causes progressive loss of vision.
Eventually, he said a uniform progressive tax rate should be developed for those who work in cooperatives and those who for state-run enterprises.
Although the total tax burden on the U.S. economy is rising, the tax reforms of the 1980s mean that taxes do less to discourage production and investment than did the highly progressive rates of 20 years ago.
"This is a balanced bill," said Domenici. "It is progressive." But House Speaker Thomas Foley said Democrats wanted the Senate to moderate its gasoline tax increase and its steeper increases in out-of-pocket Medicare costs for beneficiaries.
The Vatican denied on Wednesday that it was cracking down on Brazilian bishops for being too progressive.
Declared aim: "Substantial progressive reductions in agricultural support and protection over a sustained period of time."
The vote followed eight hours of debate between progressive and conservative factions of the 314,000-member church.
The prospectus promised a progressive dividend policy. It said 'the first half of 1992 has seen conflicting signs of a recovery in consumer confidence'.
The FDIC would like to make Southeast a model for the progressive handling of large troubled institutions on an open-bank basis, people involved in the matter said.
Turnover climbed 15 per cent to Pounds 6.85m. As part of its progressive dividend policy, the interim dividend has been lifted to 4p (3.5p).
The conservative chief of the Ukrainian Communist Party lost his position as boss of the Soviet Union's strongest political machine Thursday to a progressive protege of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Alzheimer's is a progressive, irreversible neurological disorder that mostly strikes people over 65 and has an estimated 2.5 million American victims.
It can be progressive, rising more than proportionately with income. Politicians often claim that the administrative problems of switching to an expenditure tax would be overwhelming.
Eastern rescinded Mr. Hudak's suspension yesterday after finding that Mr. Warren had failed to employ "progressive discipline" with him.
Lloyds Abbey now promises a progressive dividend policy.
Scott Gibson, president, said the results reflect the "progressive collapse" of sales of the company's high-end computers.
Because fewer than 20% of the companies polled responded to the questionnaire, attorney Benjamin Schatz acknowledged that the survey might be skewed toward the more progressive companies.
He will not suddenly wave a magic wand and it will all come right. But there will be a progressive turnaround and improvement.' Mr Strong now has it all to prove.
Logan died Tuesday at his Manhattan home of a rare, progressive neurological disease called supranuclear palsy, said his widow, actress Nedda Harrigan.
They contend she still has not learned from her mistakes, come to grips with election defeat or been able to galvanize the Pakistan People's Party, once Pakistan's most progressive political force.
The governor, who for years has had close ties with Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said he supported Dukakis because he considered him a socially progressive governor who had the best chance to win.
"As far as I'm concerned, it was a progressive, positive meeting," Derwinski said. "I'm perfectly confident that as a result of this meeting, my confirmation is coming along nicely.
A terribly confusing and ominously progressive tax system (in which 36% of all tax revenue comes from 1,500 taxpayers) just gets worse.
CU is well capitalised following its rights issue, yields more than 5 per cent and has scope to maintain a progressive dividend policy.
It is a style that suits both the progressive traditions of Wisconsin politics and the modern alienation of workers worried about economic and social threats to their families.
Our tax structure must be more progressive.
The People's Party, founded in the late 1960s by Ms. Bhutto's father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar li Bhutto, once represented the most progressive political force in Pakistan.
Negotiations resume Wednesday in Geneva under GATT auspices. Meanwhile, U.S. and EEC officials say they have agreed on "progressive substantial reductions" in agricultural subsidies, a phrase Kleckner said he doesn't understand at this point.
Callahan, a Jesuit for 40 of his 57 years, is also under orders to dissociate himself from a progressive Catholic group and one that supports the ordination of women as priests.
His verdict: "I think they're very, very good." The Rogers Break Away Base was a breakthrough in sports safety equipment and should have been welcomed as a needed progressive improvement.