"make headway" meaning in English

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      "form": "makes headway",
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      "form": "making headway",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "made headway",
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        "past"
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      "form": "made headway",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "tread water"
        }
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I worked on them all day, but barely made headway at all.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To progress; to move forward."
      ],
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          "progress",
          "progress"
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          "forward",
          "forward"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To progress; to move forward."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "make way"
        }
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "progress",
          "word": "edetä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "progress",
          "word": "edistyä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "progress",
          "word": "progresser"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "progress",
          "word": "avancer"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "progress",
          "word": "prōficiō"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "progress",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "postępować"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "progress",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "postąpić"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "progress",
          "word": "abrir caminho"
        }
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  "word": "make headway"
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    {
      "form": "makes headway",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "making headway",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "made headway",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "make way"
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          "word": "tread water"
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        "To progress; to move forward."
      ],
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          "forward",
          "forward"
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        "(idiomatic) To progress; to move forward."
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "progress",
      "word": "edetä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "progress",
      "word": "edistyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "progress",
      "word": "progresser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "progress",
      "word": "avancer"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "progress",
      "word": "prōficiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "progress",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "postępować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "progress",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "postąpić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "progress",
      "word": "abrir caminho"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make headway"
}