crash program
noun
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.
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Origin of crash program
First recorded in 1945–50
Words nearby crash program
crashing, crash-land, Crash of 1929, stock market, crash out, crash pad, crash program, crashproof, crash team, crash-test, crash the gate, crash truck
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Example sentences from the Web for crash program
We must not return to the "crash-program" psychology of the past when each new feint by the Communists was responded to in panic.