roadmap

See also: road map and Roadmap

English

Etymology

From road +‎ map.

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.

   • 2025 November 12, David Stubbings, “Rail reform bill: pledge to rebuild trust of passengers”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 6:

     She said: " We're not wasting time. While the cogs of Parliament continue to whir, we will continue to work on the rolling stock and infrastructure strategy, the national transport integrated strategy, and our accessibility roadmap.

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