streamline
v.to make a process or organization simpler and more effective. It can also mean to give something a smooth shape so it moves easily through air or water.
v.to improve the efficiency of a process or system by removing unnecessary steps. In a physical context, to design a form that offers minimal resistance to fluid flow.
“The company wants to streamline its hiring process.”
“By digitizing all paper records, the hospital managed to streamline patient admissions and reduce waiting times significantly.”
“Engineers worked to streamline the fuselage, ensuring that the aircraft could maintain high speeds while consuming significantly less fuel during transoceanic flights.”
The verb is transitive and requires a direct object, such as a process, system, or physical object.
“One provision authorizes competitive grants for local governments that revise parking mandates and minimum lot sizes or streamline permitting and environmental review for new construction.”
“Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines AI-driven software development.”
From stream + line.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.