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Approval workflow

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In office & administration, approval workflow means: The ordered process that sends a request or document to the right people for review and formal approval.

In Turkish: onay iş akışı

How it is used

Used in purchasing, HR, finance, and document systems. It often includes stages, approvers, status tracking, and automatic notifications.

Example sentences

  1. The invoice is still in the approval workflow because the department head has not signed off on the final amount.

    Here, the term refers to the tracked sequence of review steps that must be completed before the invoice can proceed.

  2. IT shortened the approval workflow for office supply orders by removing one unnecessary management step.

    In this sentence, it means the internal route and decision chain a request follows before it is accepted.

Common collocations

  • approval workflow system
  • automated approval workflow
  • workflow step
  • sign offTo give official approval for something, such as an invoice, an expense claim, a budget or a document, often by signing it.
  • formA document with spaces where you write or type information, used to apply for something, request something or record details in a standard way.

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