road map

noun

1
: a map showing roads especially for automobile travel
2
a
: a detailed plan to guide progress toward a goal
b
: a detailed explanation

Examples of road map in a Sentence

Did you bring a road map? a road map to peace
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Here is a road map to the secondhand luxury scene in Paris. Amy Tara Koch, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025 Clearly there’s more research to do to fully understand what’s happening here, but this study has provided a new road map to guide future investigation. Christopher M. Worsham, Time, 4 Apr. 2025 Communicate with your staff, share the implementation road map with them, and emphasize the new system’s benefits. Dmitriy Stepanov, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 In his timeout huddle, Scheyer looked his team up and down, then laid out the road map to Duke’s second ACC tournament title in three seasons. Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for road map

Word History

First Known Use

1741, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of road map was in 1741

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“Road map.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20map. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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