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单词 in the pipeline
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in the pipeline


1

In process, under way, as in The blueprints for the new machine are in the pipeline, but it will take months to get approval. [Colloquial; 1940s] Also see in the works.

2

Budgeted for something but not yet spent, as in There's $5 million more in the pipeline for the city schools. [Colloquial; second half of 1900s]

Words nearby in the pipeline

in the neck, in the neighborhood of, in the nick of time, in the offing, in the pink, in the pipeline, in the public eye, in the raw, in the red, in there pitching, in the rough
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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