Rolesets - streamline

streamline

streamline.01 - make smoother

STREAMLINE-V NOTES: Tracing gets weird; don't be afraid to leave arg0 as just a trace. (from streamline.01-v)

Aliases:

streamline (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: cause of smoothness
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming smoother

oddly intransitive/middle voice

The British parentARG0
is
alsoARGM-DIS
streamliningrel
: Brooks Brothers , which continues to make almost all of its merchandise , recently shut one of its two shirt plants in Paterson , N.J. , and has closed boys ' departments in all but 20 stores .

normally transitive

But
Mr. LuzonARG0
has moved swiftly to
streamlinerel
bureaucracyARG1
, cut costs , increase capital and build up new areas of business .