"fast track" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} fast track (not comparable)
  1. Of something moving along a quicker or more direct route to success or completion (e.g. a course or surgery). Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-fast_track-en-adj-k4mPsl~S Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Romanian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 24 21 23 3 7 12 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 21 25 25 3 7 11 8

Noun

Forms: fast tracks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fast track (plural fast tracks)
  1. (rail transport) A racetrack with optimum conditions for high speeds
    Sense id: en-fast_track-en-noun-biXt~pQb Categories (other): Rail transportation, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Romanian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 24 21 23 3 7 12 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 21 25 25 3 7 11 8 Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
  2. (rail transport) A railroad for express trains.
    Sense id: en-fast_track-en-noun-Jt8NGr1n Categories (other): Rail transportation, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Māori translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 25 33 1 7 8 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 19 27 34 1 7 7 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 22 27 35 1 7 6 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 27 35 1 7 6 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 24 21 23 3 7 12 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Māori translations: 22 24 31 2 8 8 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 21 25 25 3 7 11 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 22 24 32 1 8 7 5 Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
  3. The quickest or most direct method or path.
    Sense id: en-fast_track-en-noun-HYJB7yzf
  4. The quickest or most direct method or path.
    (by extension, academics) An accelerated course designed to help individuals earn a certification, degree, or credential in significantly less time than traditional pathways.
    Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-fast_track-en-noun-t8aNYY4E
  5. A high-pressure or intensely competitive situation, particularly one characterised by rapid advancement.
    Sense id: en-fast_track-en-noun-7c5dC9S0 Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Romanian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 24 21 23 3 7 12 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 21 25 25 3 7 11 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (The quickest or most direct method or path): gyorsítósáv (Hungarian), királyi út (Hungarian), cale rapidă [feminine] (Romanian), vía rápida (Spanish), de vía rápida [adjective] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'The quickest or most direct method or path': 0 0 50 50 0

Verb

Forms: fast tracks [present, singular, third-person], fast tracking [participle, present], fast tracked [participle, past], fast tracked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} fast track (third-person singular simple present fast tracks, present participle fast tracking, simple past and past participle fast tracked)
  1. To progress something with unusual rapidity. Translations (to progress something through a system bypassing usual holdups): tīpoka (Māori), agilizar (Spanish), acelerar (Spanish), apurar (Spanish), por la vía rápida [adverb] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fast_track-en-verb-XZvWOvmr Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 24 21 23 3 7 12 11

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (e62056b and e7887d5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.