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# streamlining

«streamlining» in Mova's school dictionary: **making something simpler and more efficient** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (uncountable); verb (present participle of streamline: streamline, streamlines, streamlined, streamlining)

### meaning for a pupil

1) making something simpler and more efficient. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/#m1)

2) (euphemism, business) cutting jobs or services. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/#m2)

3) (science) shaping something so it moves easily through air or water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in business and government to make cuts sound like better organisation; also a real science word about shapes. Official, all regions.

### examples

- The company announced streamlining, and two hundred jobs went. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/#x1)
- Fish and dolphins have a streamlined shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/#x2)
- We streamlined the morning routine so we leave earlier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/#x3)
- The council's streamlining closed two libraries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/#x4)
- In science we tested which shape was most streamlined. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/#x5)
- Streamlining the form made it much quicker to fill in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/#x6)

### note

Science sense: a smooth shape that reduces drag. Business sense: often job cuts. Context matters.

### In the corpora

- [For example, "We are streamlining the team" from a manager usually means some people are about to lose their jobs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/4/)
- ["Streamlining" means cutting jobs or services.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/16/)
- ["Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsizing" mean cutting jobs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «streamlining» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streamlining/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.