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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In other discussions about the general plan, which White referred to as the road map to the city, council members agreed an update is long overdue. Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025 How the Chicago Bears' offseason road map could start in the middle. Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025 Now Broccoli and Wilson will move on and key decisions will lie with Mike Hopkins, Amazon’s head of Prime Video and the MGM studio, who surely has his own road map. Peter Bart, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2025 The stories aren’t road maps to the future, exactly. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 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 14 Mar. 2025.

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