This is the beginning of a project to define the non-words used by the Left and various Quangos
Today's word is the Left's favourite word - Progressive
Oxford Dictionary version
adjective
1 happening or developing gradually or in stages:
a progressive decline in popularity
(of a medical condition) increasing in severity:
progressive liver failure
(of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases:
steeply progressive income taxes
2 (of a person or idea)
favouring social reform:
a relatively progressive Minister of Education
favouring change or innovation:
the most progressive art school in Britainrelating to or denoting a style of rock music popular especially in the 1970s and characterized by classical influences, the use of keyboard instruments, and lengthy compositions.
3 Grammar
denoting an aspect or tense of a verb that expresses an action in progress, e.g. am writing, was writing. Also called continuous
4 (of a card game or dance) involving a series of sections for which participants successively change place or relative position.
5 archaic engaging in or constituting forward motion.
noun
1 an advocate of social reform.
2 Grammar a progressive tense or aspect:
the present progressive
3 (also progressive proof) (usually progressives) Printing each of a set of proofs of colour work , showing all the colours separately and the cumulative effect of overprinting them.
Progressive Majority
For years the Left have talked of their fabled "Progressive Majority" that apparently exists in the country.
This Majority was meant to pass the AV vote for Yes.
Funny that when it came to it only 11 polling areas voted Yes out of 440...
Progressive (BBC Defintion)
Pumping money into projects for no obvious output
Used to criticise any Conservative policy
