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underway English

Meaning underway meaning

What does underway mean?
Definitions in simple English

underway

If something is underway, it has started and is happening now. The boy has been missing since this morning, and a search is currently underway.

underway

(= afoot) currently in progress there is mischief afoot plans are afoot preparations for the trial are underway

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Simple sentences

A police investigation is underway.
The project can get underway only with difficulty.
The project is underway.

Movie subtitles

OC Search have a team, and enquiries are underway.
All hands prepare to get underway!
The search is well underway. He's probably forced her to go to Ashcroft Forest.
I be striving to get underway.
No, keep underway.
When do we get underway?
An investigation for murder is now underway.
The sooner you go over the side, the sooner I can get underway again.
Pass the word to the engine room to stand by to get underway.
Get that boat underway! Man the braces!
Two days and we're clear underway.
We must get underway before the wind drops.
Prepare to get underway in the morning.
Our plans for evacuating the city are already underway.
Please listen carefully. On the night of September 14, rehearsals were underway at the Folies Montmartre for the winter show.
If you wanna get to the racetrack with McFarland you better get underway.
And where's my hat? We've got to get underway.
Get that boat underway!
Get underway!
You can see it, the revolution is already underway.
Professor Konrad will tell you about it when you're underway.
Underway at 7:30.
The mass was underway.
We couldn't do anything until you came. - The vault has to get underway in half an hour.
I am even sure that this man is already underway.
Preparations are already underway.
The organization of military and law enforcement is underway. but will take time.
Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating the water. there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour. fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream?
In any rate, you'll find Grant invaluable should anything go wrong once you're underway.
Come on. You'll feel better once we're underway.
But we've got to get underway soon, Jim.
The modifications are underway.
As planned, the construction of android robots is underway.
NARRATOR: A couple of days later. Moki's fence-setting project was well underway. in charge of a cowhand named Shorty Russell.

News and current affairs

Once that process is underway, many problems that now seem intractable will be resolved more easily.
If the US really wants to undercut terrorism, it must recognize the interconnectedness of extremism, poverty, and environmental degradation, and it will need to understand the struggles for survival that are underway among the poor everywhere.
Turkey has been given what looks like an ultimatum from the EU Commission: open your ports for ships from Cyprus within a month, or you may risk a halt to the EU accession talks now underway.
Twelve years later, Poland's Prime Minister didn't need a belated call from his military to know that war was underway in Iraq.
Negotiations are underway to revise a draft EU constitution.
Similar efforts have been underway for years in the US.
CAMBRIDGE: Efforts to make the world safe for investment bankers are underway once again.
NEW YORK - The global recession now underway is the result not only of a financial panic, but also of more basic uncertainty about the future direction of the world economy.
In general, local borrowing windows are closed, and inspections are underway to gain an accurate picture of the situation.
Such efforts are getting discretely underway.
The campaign for Ukraine's parliamentary election of September 30th is scarcely underway and yet Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is already trying to steal it.
The unusually low real funds rate came after the US housing boom was already well underway.
The region's continued economic growth and progress require that we Asians contain our rivalries and avoid the arms buildups that, unfortunately, now seem to be underway.
But do the talks now underway have any better chance of success than the countless failed negotiations that have marked the past fifty years?
The social changes now underway threaten their way of life, which includes discrimination against women and a ban on modern education.
NEW YORK - A vicious circle is currently underway in the United States, and its reach could broaden to the global economy.
SEOUL - The long-delayed meeting of North Korea's ruling Worker's Party is now underway, and comes at a time of severe tension between North Korea and the international community.
With WTO negotiations underway and an expanding free-trade agenda taking hold, those tariffs are under pressure.
All of these measures are already underway, and Chinese leaders appear committed to embracing a new growth strategy that will benefit both China's population and Asia as a whole.
Similarly, the US played no role in the political revolutions underway in the Arab world, and still has not demonstrated any clear policy response to them.

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