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unstreamline en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + streamline.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make unstreamlined
   • Let's unstreamline government. 1987, Gary North, The pirate economy, page 149:
   • Whether, or how soon, the production side of the book trade will be able or willing to unstreamline itself remains to be seen. 1947, The Twentieth Century, volumes 140-141, page 23:
   • The question is: Are those the kinds of issues which are best dealt with in a formal hearing taking into account that each time you set up a condition like that, you slightly unstreamline the process? 1993, Nuclear Power Licensing Reform:
   • A further point; on top of the motif one is now expected to add a very unsightly bug deflector in order to unstreamline that which has already been streamlined. 1953, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar:

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