underway
adj.adj. happening now or already in progress. You use this to say that a project, journey, or event has started and is moving forward.
adj. currently in progress or being carried out. Typically follows a linking verb and describes an activity, process, or journey that has already commenced.
The construction of the new bridge is finally underway.
Preparations for the annual festival are already underway, with volunteers setting up tents in the park.
While the investigation is currently underway, officials have declined to comment on the specific evidence gathered from the scene until the final report is published.
Calque of Dutch onderweg (“underway”), equivalent to under- + way. Compare also German unterwegs.
From under + way.
Primarily used as a predicative adjective following a linking verb like 'be' or 'get'; it rarely precedes the noun it modifies.
an underway projecta project that is underwayUnderway is almost always used after a verb, not before a noun.