COMMON If you make headway, you make progress with something that you are trying to achieve. A spokesman said the two sides have made headway on some security issues. It appears that the police have made little headway in the investigation.

Can't make a headway?

Advance, make progress, as in We haven't made any headway with this project. This expression, first recorded in 1887, uses headway in the nautical sense of “a vessel's forward movement.”

What does headway mean in English?

1a : motion or rate of motion in a forward direction. b : advance, progress. 2 : headroom (as under an arch) sufficient to allow passage. 3 : the time interval between two vehicles traveling in the same direction on the same route.