fast track
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- noun
- /fæst træk/
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vía rápida
- Landing that big client put her on the fast track for a promotion.
Gene Healy said that that the fast track might be better in minor ways.
- Gene Healy said that that the fast track might be better in minor ways.
- I mean, I do think we are on a seemingly fast track towards the AI transition.
- This is a fast track to making a narcissist happy.
- And, and I think that was the clarifying moment for me that here's a fast track, here's no track.
- Because being authentic is not necessarily a fast track to a healthier relationship with another person.
- And by that point, we were already already well on the fast track to this level of insanity that we're seeing today.
- So I would say the fast track is just read loads of scripts, then of course, write loads of scripts.
- So it has been a little bit like AI don't know, like a fast track education through some pretty brutal elements of history.
- And the FDA itself wrote a bunch of rules that actually, you know, carved fast track, accelerated approval tunnels through it through its own regulations.
Examples
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You have been with St. Patrick Company for one year now and believe you are on the fast track.
Academic text (2003) -
After years of slowly working its way through committee, Rush's project jumped to the fast track on 9/11.
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This is the fast track to the top, boy.
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Skin and Me is an accessible, fast track way to get amazing skin.
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Get on the fast track for a promotion.
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But now I'm on the fast track to success!
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I do know that Tom Piper is on the fast track to becoming a senator.
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Additionally, a career certificate can often put an employee on the fast track for a promotion.
Blog text (7) -
But most high school graduates aren't on the fast track to becoming lawyers or doctors.
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Ever since Desert Storm, you've been on the fast track to court-martial.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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A way to reach success in work or goals
How Fast
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a quick route to success or advancement' is directly derivable from 'fast' (quick) + 'track' (path/route); the compound reads as a speedy path to a goal. This metaphorical use of 'track' as a career or process path is common and predictable cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Fast track comes from the image of a racing or railway track where you can go fast toward the finish. So, to be on the fast track means to be given a 'quick route' to promotion or success.