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Milestone

Meaning in business english, with examples

/ˈmaɪlstoʊn/nounCommon term

In business english, milestone means: An important point or event in a project, used to check progress, such as finishing a design or launching a product.

In Turkish: kilometre taşı, önemli aşama

How it is used

Used in project plans and status updates: reach, hit or miss a milestone; 'key milestones'; 'milestone payment' (money paid when a stage is completed). Milestones mark points in time, not pieces of work.

Example sentences

  1. The first milestone is a working prototype by the end of June.

  2. We hit every milestone this year, apart from the system migration.

Common collocations

  • reach a milestone
  • key milestone
  • miss a milestone
  • milestone payment
  • project milestones
  • timelineA plan that shows when each stage of a project or process will happen, or the total time available to complete it.
  • deliverableA specific result, document or product that a team has agreed to produce and hand over by a certain date.
  • deadlineThe latest date or time by which a piece of work must be finished, sent or delivered.
  • on trackMaking the expected progress, so that a plan, target or deadline is likely to be met.

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