workflown.
/ˈwəːkfləʊ/, U.S. /ˈwərkˌfloʊ/ Originally U.S.
The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion; the passage of a piece of work through this sequence.Recorded earliest in workflow diagram (see Compounds).
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society > occupation and work > work > amounts of work > [noun] > sequence of stages in production line
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1921 Jrnl. Inst. Transport 2 148 (caption) Staff ratio and work flow diagram.
1922 A. M. Simons Production Managem. iv. 68 Complete floor plans..upon which should be marked the location of all equipment and all sequences and lines of work flow.
1943 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 38 231 Extreme irregularity in work-flow shows up as an out-of-control point on the range chart.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 19 June 2/4 Byrd is a master of legislative detail with a reputation as a fair-minded manager who accelerates the work flow.
1991 A. Strauss Creating Sociol. Awareness vi. 110 Disruptions in workflow and what effect they may have in such a project.
2012 S. R. Smoot & N. K. Tan Private Cloud Computing iv. 113 The workflow was simple: at the start of the day engineers would FTP the designs from the cloud to their local workstations.., work locally, and upload at the end of the day.
Compounds
General attributive, as workflow diagram, workflow process, etc.
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society > occupation and work > work > amounts of work > [adjective] > work flow
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1921Work flow diagram [see main sense].
1942 Printing Equipm. Engineer June 39 Workflow diagrams are always of interest to printing production executives.
1976 Coleopterists Bull. 30 1 The work flow procedures to get this data onto computer readable magnetic tape.
1995 Computerworld 6 Feb. 56/3 Basic workflow functions such as intelligent routing, review and approval automation, notification and workflow management.
2005 Peterborough Evening Tel. (Nexis) 21 June The facility has streamlined and automated Klicka's entire workflow process from order to delivery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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