multistep

adjective

mul·​ti·​step ˌməl-tē-ˈstep How to pronounce multistep (audio)
-ˌtī-
: involving two or more distinct steps or stages
the first step in a multistep process
a multistep strategy/approach
Play strategy games like chess and Monopoly often, recommends Suzanne Farmer … . They're great practice for making decisions and thinking through multistep problems …—Jennifer Kelly Geddes

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Reinforcement learning and post-training have become central to the push to make frontier models better at reasoning, coding, and carrying out multistep tasks. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 But model developers such as Anthropic increasingly have the technical ingredients to build software that can interact with enterprise APIs, reason over business context and execute multistep tasks. — Victor Dey, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Following this concern, 55% of parents said their top concern was their child’s ability to complete multistep tasks such as homework while 45% of parents cited fidgeting. — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Aug. 2026 Cartmell, who worked with the vender who made the Costanza bobblehead, explained the multistep process. — Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for multistep

Word History

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of multistep was in 1903

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“Multistep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multistep. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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