roadmap

See also: road map and Roadmap

English

Noun

roadmap (plural roadmaps)

1. Alternative form of road map
   • 1997, George Mulholland, John Fassett, Charles Ehrlich, Global Growth of Technology: Is America Prepared?, page 76:

     And our semiconductor industry, I think, is showing the way as to how roadmaps can be used for very general, very generic and very energizing programs of a very broad nature.

   • 2022, Robert Kanigel, Young Man, Muddled, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     In 1966, I could not have imagined my life playing out as it has. That I would do the work I do. Or love the women I loved. My life and work seemed laid out for me, the future a detailed roadmap. The map was wrong.

Verb

roadmap (third-person singular simple present roadmaps, present participle roadmapping, simple past and past participle roadmapped)

1. (transitive) To construct a plan of action regarding (something).
   • 2002, Gary J. Chastek, editor, Software Product Lines: Second International Conference, SPLC 2, San Diego, CA, USA, August 19–22, 2002. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 335:

     More specifically, we believe that such an approach should be: […] Opportunistic in using available software but also planned when developing new software, with the latter carefully roadmapped.

French

Etymology

Anglicism (English roadmap).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔd.map/

Noun

roadmap f (plural roadmaps)

1. action plan