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fast track

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fast track
n. Informal
The quickest and most direct route to achievement of a goal, as in competing for professional advancement: "Making complaints against the public is hardly the fast track to elective office" (New Yorker).

fast-track (fsttrk) adj. & v.
fast tracker n.
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Noun1.fast track - a rapid means of achieving a goal; "they saw independence as the fast track to democracy"; "he took a fast track to the top of the corporate ladder"; "the company went off the fast track when the stock market dropped"
means, way, agency - how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success"
Translations
fast track
nschnellster Weg; fast track carrierSenkrechtkarriere f


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Designation as a fast track product enables Pharmaxis to file the new drug application on a rolling basis as data becomes available, allowing the FDA to review the application in sections ahead of receiving the complete submission.
Treating low acuity patients in a separate fast track area within hospital emergency departments can ease the pressure on Australian public hospitals according to a recent study.
But--since Congress extended fast track negotiating authority (now called Trade Promotion Authority) in 2002--the United States has concluded nine Free Trade Agreements.
 
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