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streamline

UK/ˈstriːmlaɪn/US/ˈstriːmlaɪn/
verbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,574 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: streamlined, streamlining, streamlines

To streamline is to make a process simpler and more efficient. Streamline the process, a streamlined design, streamline the department.

In business it is often a polite word for cutting jobs, and everybody hears that. The literal sense is engineering, where a streamlined shape lets air or water pass with least resistance.

Definitions of streamline

  1. 1verbstreamlineTo make a process simpler and more efficient.B2+

    “The bank has streamlined its application process, so you can open an account in minutes.”

streamline is a simplifying.

Where it comes from

From stream + line.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

streamline in the wild

  • The direction the path takes will be determined by the streamlines of the fluid at each moment in time.

    Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines

  • By definition, different streamlines at the same instant in a flow do not intersect, because a fluid particle cannot have two different velocities at the same point.

    Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.