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fast track

The definition of fast track is to speed something up.

(verb)

An example of fast track is when your banker friend pushes your loan application through more quickly than normal.

Fast track is defined as some course that is leading somewhere quickly, either literally or figuratively.

(noun)

An example of fast track is a career woman who is quickly moving up in her office and who will be in a senior management position soon.

See fast track in Webster's New World College Dictionary

fast lane (sense )
a career path offering rapid advancement
a building method in which construction begins even before plans and designs are completed

adjective

speedy or accelerated; expeditious: fast-track approval of a new drug
designating or having to do with the power to enter into agreements that are not subject to Congressional modification: the President's fast-track authority in trade negotiations

transitive verb

to speed up the progress of

See fast track in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
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).

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