Meaning & use
streamline
To make a process, organization, or system more simple and efficient by removing unnecessary steps.
See it in a sentence
The new software helped streamline the company's entire ordering process.
Managers met to streamline the approval process for small purchases.
A note on using this word
Streamline originally described shaping vehicles to reduce air resistance before it took on this figurative business meaning.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
complicate
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