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Progress

To report progress, in parliamentary language, is to conclude for the night the business of a bill, and defer the consideration of all subsequent items thereof till the day nominated by the chief Minister of the Crown.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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