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RELATED WORDS : all the way any old way apex of the sun's way appian way back way by the way by way of clear the way every which way flaminian way from way back give way give way to go a long way great white way in a bad way in a big way in a broad way in a heartfelt way in a similar way in a way in an elaborate way in no way in some way lead the way look the other way make way milky way milky way galaxy milky way system no way pave the way point the way right of way roundabout way rub the wrong way smooth the way stand in the way the other way around the right way the way of the world the whole way under way water way way way of life way out way shaft way station

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Adverbial on the way has 1 sense

• on the way(r = adv.all) en route - on a route to some place; "help is on the way"; "we saw him on the way to California"

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on the way

along the way, as one goes, brewing, en passant, en route, forthcoming, going on, in embryo, in hand, in mid-progress, in passing, in preparation, in process, in production, in progress, in the oven, in the works, in transit, in transitu, on stream, on the anvil, on the fire, on the road, on the wing, under construction, under revision, under way

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on the way

Transference

N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.

Progression

N progress, progression, progressiveness, advancing, advance, advancement, ongoing, flood, tide, headway, march, rise, improvement, advancing, progressive, profluent, advanced, forward, onward, forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to, in progress, in mid progress, in transitu, vestigia nulla retrorsum, westward the course of empire takes its way.

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