projet
Americannoun
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a project.
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a draft of a proposed treaty or other instrument.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of projet
1800–10; < French < Latin prōjectum. See project
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Paris has launched a multibillion expansion projet of its metro network : over 150km of driverless deep bore subway tunnels are planned for the next decade.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2018
Tout à toi, Freddie Dear Freddie, I am delighted you have entered so fully into the spirit of my grand projet.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
Rionga was accepted by acclamation; and if the young traitor, Kabba Rega, could have witnessed this little projet de traite, he would have shivered in his shoes.
From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
This Règlement, which is substantially a reproduction of the unratified projet of the Brussels Conference of 1874, does deal, in Arts. 1-3, with guerilla warfare.
From Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) by Holland, Thomas Erskine, Sir
The fortifications of Belleîle and the number of his retainers were brought up as evidence of his intention to carry out the "projet," as it was called, if it became necessary.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
In 2006 Sir Rod Eddington, an Australian businessman, published a government-backed review of Britain’s infrastructure provision, warning against grands projets for having cost-benefit ratios that are often worse than other less-exciting transport projects.
From Economist ● Mar. 3, 2016
Such transgressions were forgiven as one-offs in the construction of grands projets.
From Economist ● Mar. 12, 2015
He was the man responsible for the ambitious building program of the grands projets and other remarkable achievements.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were taken when "des projets," as the heading calls them, were being discussed.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
It also puts forward projets de loi for the approval of the Deliberative States.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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