Progressive may refer to:

Politics

Progressivism Progressivism is a Left-right political spectrum, left-leaning political philosophy and Reformism, reform political movement, movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform. Adherents hold that progressivism has unive ...

, a political philosophy in support of social reform **

Progressivism in the United States Progressivism in the United States is a Left–right political spectrum, left-leaning political philosophy and reform movement. Into the 21st century, it advocates policies that are generally considered social democratic and part of the American ...

, the political philosophy in the American context ** Progressivism in South Korea, the political philosophy in the South Korean context * Progressive realism, an American foreign policy paradigm focused on producing measurable results in pursuit of widely supported goals

Political organizations

* Congressional Progressive Caucus, members within the Democratic Party in the United States Congress dedicated to the advancement of progressive issues and positions * Progressive Alliance (disambiguation) * Progressive Conservative (disambiguation) *

Progressive Party (disambiguation) Progressive Party may refer to: Active parties * Progressive Party of Aotearoa New Zealand * Progressive Party, Brazil * Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia, Canada * Progressive Party (Chile) * Progressive Party of Working Peo ...

* Progressive Unionist (disambiguation)

Other uses in politics

Progressive Era The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) was a period in the United States characterized by multiple social and political reform efforts. Reformers during this era, known as progressivism in the United States, Progressives, sought to address iss ...

, a period of reform in the United States (c. 1890–1930) *

Progressive tax A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases. The term ''progressive'' refers to the way the tax rate progresses from low to high, with the result that a taxpayer's average tax rate is less than the ...

, a type of tax rate structure

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Progressive music Progressive music is music that attempts to expand existing stylistic boundaries associated with specific music genre, genres of music. The word comes from the basic concept of ":wiktionary:progress, progress", which refers to advancements thr ...

, a type of music that expands stylistic boundaries outwards ** Progressive pop **

Progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early-to-mid-1970s. Initially termed " progressive pop", the ...

Post-progressive Post-progressive is a type of rock music distinguished from vintage progressive rock styles, specifically 1970s prog. Post-progressive draws upon newer developments in popular music and the avant-garde since the mid-1970s. It especially draws f ...

Progressive soul Progressive soul (often shortened to prog-soul; also called black prog, black rock, and progressive R&B) is a type of African-American music that uses a progressive music, progressive approach, particularly in the context of the soul music, soul ...

Progressive house Progressive house is a subgenre of house music that emerged in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. It is characterized by its evolving, melodic Musical form, structures, subtle Transition (music), transitions, and layered sound design.Gerard, ...

Progressive rap Progressive rap (or progressive hip hop) is a broad subgenre of Hip-hop, hip hop music that aims to progress the genre thematically with Social transformation, socially transformative ideas and musically with stylistic experimentation. Developing ...

* ''Progressive'', a 2015 EP by Mrs. Green Apple * "Progressive" (song), a 2009 single by Kalafina * "Progressive" (Megumi Ogata and Aya Uchida song), the ending theme to the 2014 video game '' Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls'' * ''Progressive'', a demo album by the band Haggard

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Progressive chess, a chess variant *

Progressive talk radio Progressive talk radio is a talk radio format devoted to expressing Left-wing politics, left-leaning viewpoints of news and issues as opposed to conservative talk radio. In the United States, the format has included radio syndication, syndicated ...

, a talk radio format devoted to expressing liberal or progressive viewpoints of issues * '' The Progressive'', an American left-wing magazine

Brands and enterprises

Progressive Corporation The Progressive Corporation is an American insurance company. Progressive is currently the #2 auto insurer in the United States behind State Farm. The company was co-founded in 1937 by Jack Green and Joseph M. Lewis, and is headquartered in Ma ...

, a U.S. insurance company *

Progressive Enterprises Woolworths New Zealand Limited (formerly Progressive Enterprises) is the second largest grocery company in New Zealand (behind Foodstuffs (company), Foodstuffs), with revenue of NZ$6.2 billion for the year to June 2018. Alongside Foodstuffs, Wo ...

, a New Zealand retail cooperative

Healthcare

Progressive disease Progressive disease or progressive illness is a disease or physical ailment whose course in most cases is the worsening, growth, or spread of the disease. This may happen until death, serious debility, or organ failure occurs. Some progressive di ...

Progressive lens Progressive lenses are corrective lenses used in glasses, eyeglasses to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation reflex, accommodation. They are characterised by a gradient of increasing optical power, lens power, added to the wear ...

, a type of corrective eyeglass lenses

Religion

Progressive Adventism Progressive Adventists are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who prefer different emphases or disagree with certain beliefs traditionally held by mainstream Adventism and officially by the church. While they are often described as libe ...

, a sect of the Seventh-day Adventist Church *

Progressive Christianity Progressive Christianity represents a range of related perspectives in contemporary Christian theology and practice. It is a postmodern theological approach, which developed out of the liberal Christianity of the modern era, although progressive C ...

, a movement within contemporary Protestantism * Progressive creationism, a form of Old Earth creationism * Progressive Islam, a modern liberal interpretation of Islam * Progressive Judaism, a major denomination within Judaism * Progressive religion, a religious tradition which embraces theological diversity *

Progressive revelation (Bahá'í) Progressive revelation may refer to: * Progressive revelation (Bahá'í), a core teaching of the Bahá'í Faith, that suggests that religious truth is revealed by God progressively and cyclically over time *Progressive revelation (Christianity) Pro ...

, a core teaching of Bahá'í that suggests that religious truth is revealed by God progressively and cyclically over time *

Progressive revelation (Christianity) Progressive revelation may refer to: * Progressive revelation (Bahá'í), a core teaching of the Bahá'í Faith, that suggests that religious truth is revealed by God progressively and cyclically over time * Progressive revelation (Christianity), t ...

, the concept that the sections of the Bible written later contain a fuller revelation of God

Technology

* Progressive disclosure, a technique used in human computer interaction *

Progressive scan Progressive scanning (alternatively referred to as noninterlaced scanning) is a format of displaying, storing, or transmitting moving images in which all the lines of each frame are drawn in sequence. This is in contrast to interlaced video us ...

, a form of video transmission * Progressive shifting, a technique for changing gears in trucks *

Progressive stamping Progressive Die is a metalworking method that can encompass punching, coining, bending and several other ways of modifying metal raw material, combined with an automatic feeding system. The feeding system pushes a strip of metal (as it unrol ...

, a metalworking technique

Verb forms

* Progressive aspect (also called ''continuous''), a verb form that expresses incomplete action ** Past progressive ** Perfect progressive aspects, see

Uses of English verb forms Modern standard English has various verb forms, including: * Finite verb forms such as ''go'', ''goes'' and ''went'' * Nonfinite forms such as ''(to) go'', ''going'' and ''gone'' * Combinations of such forms with auxiliary verbs, such as ''was ...

and

English verbs Verbs constitute one of the main Part of speech, parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are not heavily inflection, inflected. Most combinations of Grammatical tense, tense ...

Other uses

* Progressive education, which emphasizes a hands-on approach to learning * Progressive Field (originally Jacobs Field), home of the Cleveland Guardians * Progressive function, a function in mathematics * Progressive historians, group of 20th century historians of the United States associated with a historiographical tradition that embraced an economic interpretation of American history