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to track progress

to track progress

1 3.4
To watch how something changes or gets better over time
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : seguir el progreso
  • Accountability will allow governments, global agencies, the pharmaceutical industry, civil society organizations, other institutional stakeholders, and citizens around the world to track progress made on essential medicines policies to support UHC.
  • track progress toward goals

Examples

  • SCRUMs also allow team members to track progress, so if any project falls behind, all members can jump on it immediately.

    Blog text (31)

  • Fill in the grid below for each search to track progress.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Develop systems to track progress in achieving the goals of the plan.

    Blog text (25)

  • Many reported that meetings were the best method for establishing goals, defining objectives, planning activities, and tracking progress.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Patient-specific measures, such as the Patient-Specific Functional Scale, can be used to identify patient goals and track progress in their achievement.

    Academic text (2016)

  • The team completes the checklist at the initial implementation stage and then completes it again monthly or quarterly thereafter to track progress.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Teachers use various tools to track progress in student learning throughout the school year.

  • She started a journal to track progress toward her fitness goals every month.

  • The software allows you to easily track progress on projects and meet deadlines.

Synonyms

to track
vsto track progress
∞ 2.3

To follow where a person or thing goes

focuses specifically on monitoring advancement or development over time
to keep track
vsto track progress
174 2.7

To watch and write down progress or details

monitors development over time without stressing regular recording

Antonyms

to ignore
∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

to neglect
256 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

How Closely

to track progress
1 3.4

Surface Forms

track progress infinitive
tracked progress past
tracked progress past participle
tracking progress present participle
tracks progress third person singular

Morphology

track + progress

The meaning 'to monitor the advancement or development of something' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'track' (to follow or monitor) with 'progress' (advancement). This is a literal verb + noun collocation following standard compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand it.

Etymology

Track progress comes from the image of following someone's track or footprints to see how far they have gone and how much they have moved forward. So, track progress means 'to watch how something moves forward over time'.