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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"
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fast track
n → schnellster Weg; fast track carrier → Senkrechtkarriere f


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