STREAMLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does streamline mean? 

• STREAMLINE (verb)
  The verb STREAMLINE has 1 sense:

1. contour economically or efficiently

  Familiarity information: STREAMLINE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREAMLINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they streamline    ... he / she / it streamlines   
Past simple: streamlined   
Past participle: streamlined   
-ing form: streamlining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Contour economically or efficiently

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "streamline" is one way to...):

contour (form the contours of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

streamliner (a streamlined train)

 Context examples 

Streamlines and centralizes administrative, financial, and data collection tasks.

(Cancer Trials Support Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

You can streamline your finances quite efficiently after the new moon of January 24 in Aquarius.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A system to standardize and streamline data reporting and reduce administration needs.

(Clinical Data Update System, NCI Thesaurus)

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Albany, California, have found a way to streamline the process that scientists use to insert multiple genes into a crop plant, developing a reliable method that will make it easier to breed a variety of crops with vastly improved traits.

(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)