Usually means: Progress or advance despite difficulties.
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  1. make headway: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. make headway: Merriam-Webster
  3. make headway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. make headway: Vocabulary.com
  5. make headway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. make headway: Wiktionary
  7. make headway: Dictionary.com
  8. make headway: Rhymezone
  9. make headway: FreeDictionary.org
  10. make headway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. make headway: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. make headway: Legal dictionary

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  1. make headway: Encyclopedia

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  1. make headway: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make headway)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To progress; to move forward.

Similar:
get ahead, gain ground, win, gain, advance, move forward, move ahead, make ground, make one's way, come along, more...

Opposite:
stagnate, regress, retreat, backslide, lose ground

Types:
advance, progress, gain ground, make strides, more...

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Similar:
get ahead, gain ground, win, gain, advance, move forward, move ahead, make ground, make one's way, come along, more...

Opposite:
stagnate, regress, retreat, backslide, lose ground

Types:
advance, progress, gain ground, make strides, more...



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