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pipeline

pipeline

51 4.0
A set of steps that moves items like files or job applicants toward a final result
  • noun
  • /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : 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
12 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

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

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

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
5.6
pipelining
  • Specialized
5.7
pipeline
  • Specialized
51 4.0
workflow
  • Specialized
24 4.1
one-step
5 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.