UNDER WAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does under way mean? 

• UNDER WAY (adverb)
  The adverb UNDER WAY has 1 sense:

1. in motion; set in motion

  Familiarity information: UNDER WAY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDER WAY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In motion; set in motion

Context example:

the ship got under way

Pertainym:

moving (in motion)

 Context examples 

Because the study's findings suggest that acceleration due to climate change is already under way, the acceleration should become evident in the satellite record in the coming decade.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

Clinical trials are currently under way in the US, Pfluger said they are expecting the first data from there.

(German scientists find potential treatment for obesity, Agência Brasil)

An’ as he was a-gettin’ under way, didn’t the fond husbands get left astern-like in their sampan, as it might be by accident?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then, while some broke camp, others harnessed the dogs, and they were under way an hour or so before the darkness fell which gave warning of dawn.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it was no great matter for surprise that when they got down to the Hole the lugger was already under way, though still close in.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Under way, and with nothing for the time being to do, I turned my attention to the situation of the boats.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was a simple matter to give the dogs less food; but it was impossible to make the dogs travel faster, while their own inability to get under way earlier in the morning prevented them from travelling longer hours.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We were already under way, all sails set and drawing, and the sheets being slacked off for a wind abeam, as the last boat lifted clear of the water and swung in the tackles.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Two hours of cursing and exertion got the harnesses into shape, and the wound-stiffened team was under way, struggling painfully over the hardest part of the trail they had yet encountered, and for that matter, the hardest between them and Dawson.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

This manœuvre of getting under way I had studied and worked out a score of times; and, with the jib-halyard to the windlass, I knew Maud was capable of hoisting that most necessary sail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)