- a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed.
- a railroad track for express trains.
- a situation or course of action that is intensely pressured or competitive, especially one in which a person advances rapidly to a higher level in a business or profession: With two promotions in six months, he seems to have chosen the fast track.
- on a / the fast track, Informal.
- advancing or being promoted more rapidly than usual, especially in business or other organizational positions: an executive on the fast track.
- expanding or being developed or handled rapidly and often innovatively: a company on the fast track in computer technology.
- to advance or develop rapidly.
- of or relating to the fast track.
- denoting the quickest or most direct route or system
- to speed up the progress of (a project or person)
