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Progressive may refer to:

In business:

• Progressive Corporation, auto insurance company in the US
• Progressive Enterprises, New Zealand retail cooperative

In music:

• Progressive country, subgenre of country music started in the late 60s which preceded and led to Outlaw country
• Progressive electronic music, collection of electronic dance music genres which draw upon the use of progressive performing techniques
• Progressive metal, genre of heavy metal music which shares traits with progressive rock
• Progressive music, approach to musical composition that has been applied to several different music genres
• Progressive psytrance, style of trance music developed in the early 2000s
• Progressive rock, subgenre of rock music which arose in the late 1960s
• Progressive rock (radio format), radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s

In politics:

• Progressivism, a political movement/ideology with origins in early 20th century America.
• Progressive Era, period of reform in the United States which lasted from the 1890s through the 1920s
• Progressive Party, name of several different active and inactive political parties across the world
• Progressive tax, tax imposed so that the tax rate increases as the amount to which the rate is applied increases
• The Progressive, left-wing monthly magazine

In religion:

• Progressive creationism, form of Old Earth creationism that accepts that new species have appeared successively over earth's long history
• Progressive Judaism, umbrella term for all strands of Judaism which do not view halakha as having normative status
• Progressive revelation, core teaching of the Bahá'í Faith that flows from central teachings of the religion

In technology:

• Progressive disclosure, interaction design technique often used in human computer interaction
• Progressive scan, form of video transmission which is frame-based instead of field-based

In other fields:

• Progressive aspect, grammatical aspect that expresses incomplete action in progress at a specific time
• Progressive chess, chess variant in which players play progressively longer series of moves
• Progressive function, function in mathematics
• Progressive jackpot, jackpot for a gaming machine where the value of the jackpot increases a small amount for every game played
• Progressive lenses, corrective lenses used in eyeglasses to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation
• Progressive logic, attempt to describe the logic of progressive moral values
• Progressive shifting, technique for changing gears commonly practiced by drivers of semi-trailer trucks
• Progressive stamping, metalworking method that can encompass punching, coining, and bending metal raw material

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