英和和英

語源 1

Calque of Dutch onderweg (“underway”), equivalent to under- +‎ way. Compare also German unterwegs.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ʌndəˈweɪ/
• (General American) IPA: /ʌndəɹˈweɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

副詞

underway (comparative more underway, superlative most underway)

1. In motion, in progress; being done or carried out; on a journey.
   • 2008 February 14, Steve Lohr, “Offshore Outsourcing’s Next Wave: How High?”, in NY Times‎, retrieved 22 January 2012:

     The next wave, well underway, is shipping back-office business tasks overseas, ...

   • 2018 April 7, Andrew Dickinson, “In New Hampshire, the 2020 presidential race is already well underway”, in NBC News‎, retrieved 20 September 2018:

     The political world might still be recovering from the 2016 presidential election and focusing now on the midterm fights for Congress, but here in the nation's first primary state the battle for 2020 is already well underway.

語源 2

From under +‎ way.

発音

• IPA: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)weɪ/

名詞

underway (plural underways)

1. A road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle; an underpass.
   • 2005, Donovan L. Hofsommer, “Adrift”, in Minneapolis and the Age of Railways‎, Univ. of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 152:

     As Minneapolis grew, the city demanded that M&StL construct "underways" beneath city roadways.

2. An underground passage, subway, tunnel.
   • 2004, Alan Goldfein, “A Wonderful Drive”, in Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe"‎, American Editions, →ISBN, page 46:

     There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ...

3. A voyage, especially underwater.
   • 2008, Alfred Scott McLaren, William R. Anderson, “To Severnaya Zemlya and the Beginning of the Shelf Survey”, in Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)‎, Univ. of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 179:

     I had been the diving officer on three previous submarines, …, and was an experienced officer of the deck with many underways and landings under my belt on all three.

発音

前置詞句

under way

1. (idiomatic) In operation, in progress, commenced.
   • 1956 May, C. H. Betts, “St. Pancras Tunnel Signalbox”, in Railway Magazine, page 320:

     A dearth of signalmen and the high cost of labour is hastening an elimination process that already was well under way before the second world war.

   • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:

     The All Blacks drove upfield, using up the remaining moments, and when Joubert blew for another French infringement, the biggest party in New Zealand's history was under way.

   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

   • 2021 May 21, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: SWR's termination of '442' refurbishment saves £24m”, in RAIL, number 931, page 29:

     SWR has decided to withdraw it with immediate effect and cease the programme of modifications that were under way, to avoid incurring further costs to the taxpayer to reintroduce and operate these trains.

2. (nautical, of a vessel) Moving through the water; not anchored, moored, aground, or beached.
3. Into motion, into its course.

   The show finally got under way, just 10 minutes late.

関連する語

• make way

参照