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means An accelerated route to a goal that bypasses the normal, slower process — usually reserved for the favored, the urgent, or the well-connected.

from Literal before it was figurative: a 'fast track' was originally an actual railway or racing track built or maintained for higher speeds than ordinary ones. By the mid-20th century, especially in American business and career jargon, it jumped the rails into metaphor — a 'fast track' career or program meant one engineered to move you through stages quicker than the standard route, the way an express line skips local stops.