The 10 best Laker basketball players of all time include some of the best players in the sport. The Lakers started as the Detroit Gems in 1946, but the team moved to Minneapolis in 1947. The team's name comes from the Minnesota state name, the Land of 10,0000 Lakes.. 1  Magic Johnson.
progressive (plural progressives) 1  A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government. ( 2 grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used the progressive tense and generally conjugated as to end in -ing.
Progressive tax. A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases. The term progressive refers to the way the tax rate progresses from low to high, with the result that a taxpayer's average tax rate is less than the person's marginal tax rate. The term can be applied to individual taxes or to a tax system as a whole; a year, multi-year, or lifetime.