expedite the process

Meaning

This phrase means to speed up or accelerate the progress of a specific action, project, or workflow. It is highly common in business operations, project management, and customer service to indicate that something needs to be completed faster than usual. The tone is polite, professional, and action-oriented.

Examples

• We need to find a way to expedite the process of onboarding new clients.

  We need to find a way to expedite the process of onboarding new clients.

• Implementing the new software should significantly expedite the approval process.

  Implementing the new software should significantly expedite the approval process.

• To expedite the process, please submit all the required documents by Friday.

  To expedite the process, please submit all the required documents by Friday.

• The manager approved overtime to help expedite the process of data migration.

  The manager approved overtime to help expedite the process of data migration.

• We are working closely with the legal team to expedite the process.

  We are working closely with the legal team to expedite the process.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ We must expedite up the process.

  ✓ We must expedite the process.

  Unlike the phrasal verb 'speed up', 'expedite' is a transitive verb and does not take the preposition 'up'.

• ✗ Please expedite the process faster.

  ✓ Please expedite the process.

  'Expedite' inherently means to make a process happen faster, making the word 'faster' redundant.

Related Expressions

Practice

• If you pay an additional fee, we can ___ of your visa application.

  💡 speed up the administrative steps

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  expedite the process

• Using pre-designed templates will help us ___ and meet the deadline.

  💡 accelerate the workflow

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  expedite the process