Etymology From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.
1
Continuing, permanent, lasting.
"Major refurbishments will be made over the next ten years. We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says.2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 50:
2
Presently or currently happening; being in progress.
Etymology From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.
1
Something that is going on; a happening.
We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.1961, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure: