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Meaning of make ground | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

gain ground; make progress.

idiomatic

Examples

“Replacement Damien Traille burgled a high ball from Israel Dagg and made good ground, the All Blacks scrum coming under increasing pressure and the crowd falling silent as their World Cup dream threatened to become a nightmare.”
“Today the territory carved out for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk "peoples' republics" is shrinking fast as the Ukrainian army makes ground.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

make happen make hard work of make haste make haste slowly make hay make hay while the sun shines

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