crash program

noun

1. a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem.

   a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.

Word History and Origins

Origin of crash program¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

In the early 1980s, he led the fight against a crash program to map all human genes, fearing, once again, unknown consequences.

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A crash program to develop a cattle equivalent might make sense, says Carol Cardona, an avian influenza specialist and poultry veterinarian at the University of Minnesota.

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Manhattan Project, the World War II–era crash program to build the first-ever atomic bombs.

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Much of the pain and disruption that will result from the now-necessary crash program would have been avoided.

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While some officials recognized the urgency of a crash program of testing and masks, “Kadlec had no money, no real emergency fund.”

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