multistep

adjective

mul·​ti·​step ˌməl-tē-ˈstep How to pronounce multistep (audio)
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: involving two or more distinct steps or stages
the first step in a multistep process
a multistep strategy/approach
Play strategy games like chess and Monopoly often, recommends Suzanne Farmer … . They're great practice for making decisions and thinking through multistep problems …Jennifer Kelly Geddes

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Best Practices For Implementation Deploying modern cloud OLAP is a multistep process. Artyom Keydunov, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 Skin-care mania has divided millennial parents, many of whom grew up washing their faces in the shower with a bar of soap — if at all — and now are baffled by the multistep get-ready-with-me videos that their children are diligently following on social media. Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024 The idea of this multistep process was to reduce wrinkles in the final hull that the company believed had caused test models to fail short of their design depths. Mark Harris, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2024 Requests to be seen by a nurse, doctor or dentist are a multistep process. Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 1 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for multistep 

Word History

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of multistep was in 1903

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“Multistep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multistep. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.

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