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pipeline

pipeline

39 4.0
A set of steps that moves items like files or job applicants toward a final result
  • noun
  • /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/
  • Specialized
: flujo de trabajo
  • - The Donetsk People's Republic government say that moving forward there can be no communication with Kiev other than prisoner swaps that might be in the pipeline.
  • pipeline stage
  • enter the pipeline
  • pipeline delay

How do you keep them in your pipeline as your next client?

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Examples

  • If you like this stuff, believe me, you will, maybe we can set up a regular pipeline.

  • All of a sudden, overnight, your pipeline of opportunity is going to be super robust.

  • How do you keep them in your pipeline as your next client?

  • Focus on the pipeline, focus on the next lead.

  • There were two basic groups working on the pipeline.

  • The next link in the pipeline.

  • We still have a full agenda, a full pipeline of novel vaccine candidates.

  • Those are the people you're looking to bring into your pipeline, and that's what this whole thing is about.

  • In the 10 years you've been running Gen-Sys, how many drugs have come down the pipeline that could save millions of lives, that could change everything?

  • The new software will streamline the entire pipeline for processing customer orders.

Idioms

Planned and prepared to happen soon

Compounds

oil pipeline
  • Specialized
16 2.9

A long set of pipes that carries oil between places

A company that builds and runs large pipes that carry oil and gas

A long pipe that carries oil about 800 miles from northern Alaska to the port of Valdez

An oil pipe in Alaska that runs about 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez

A major oil pipeline that runs about 800 miles across Alaska from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez

1 4.9

A planned series of marketing actions to reach business goals

riser pipeline
  • Specialized
6.5

A vertical pipe in a building that carries water or gas to different floors

pipeline company
  • Specialized
3.8

A company that builds and runs services to move and change data so companies can use it

How Complex

data grid
  • Specialized
1 5.6
pipelining
  • Specialized
1 5.7
pipeline
  • Specialized
39 4.0
workflow
  • Specialized
22 4.1
one-step
94 4.1

Surface Forms

pipeline singular
pipelines plural

Morphology

pipeline = pipe + line (semi-transparent) = pipe + line

The term is a metaphorical extension from the physical conduit to an abstract sequence of stages; parts are recognizable but the specialized sense is not purely literal.

Etymology

Pipeline kept the idea of things moving along a long tube, so a helpful image is an 'assembly line' where items flow from one step to the next. That's why we also use pipeline for a connected set of stages that moves and changes data or tasks from start to finish.