0 present participle of streamline
1 to shape something so that it can move as effectively and quickly as possible through a liquid or gas:
2 to improve the effectiveness of an organization such as a business or government, often by making the way activities are performed simpler:
The cost-cutting measures include streamlining administrative procedures in the company.
Leading organizations use software to streamline their workflow.
Streamlining management could save at least 15 percent in costs.
This set of criteria excluded institutional 'streamlining', and where the effect was uncertain, the issue was excluded.
Simple adjustments such as streamlining patients' concurrent medication and the use of dosettes may minimize the potential for noncompliance.
The problem of streamlining these interests is dramatically exacerbated in the context of massive corporate consolidation.
Firstly, it was suitable for conceptualising the streamlining of the circulation of desire within cultural production, irrespective of racial or political barriers.
The observed agreement builds confidence in the numerical solutions, and the cooperative study resulted in worthwhile streamlining of both methods of attack.
This in turn requires streamlining of the services and the development of new approaches that makes the best use of people's skills.
Here we need to warn against the destructive tendency in our times ofjudging patterns prematurely using strict criteria such as efficiency, cost reduction, and streamlining.
In both regions, emulation was a powerful and very robust motivation for streamlining the public sector.
