Existing and Ongoing

verb

• Have an existence, be extant.
  • usage: "Is there a God"
  • synonyms: exist, be
• Support oneself.
  • usage: "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
  • synonyms: exist, survive, live, subsist

adjective

• Presently existing.
  • usage: "the existing system"
• Having existence or being or actuality.
  • usage: "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"
  • synonyms: existent
• Existing in something specified.
  • usage: "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Exist.

adjective

• Currently happening.
  • usage: "an ongoing economic crisis"
  • synonyms: on-going

(n.) The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events.