WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

workflow
    n 1: progress (or rate of progress) in work being done [syn:
         work flow, workflow]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

workflow

   1.  The scheduling of independent jobs on
   a computer.

   See also time-sharing, WFL.

   2.  The set of relationships between all the activities
   in a project, from start to finish.  Activities are related by
   different types of trigger relation.  Activities may be
   triggered by external events or by other activities.

   3. The movement of documents around an organisation for
   purposes including sign-off, evaluation, performing activities
   in a process and co-writing.

   [Stef Joosten et.al. "An empirical study about the practice of
   workflow management", WA-12 report, 1994].

   (1995-03-27)