projet
Americannoun
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projets
plural
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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
Example Sentences
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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
March 31 the Reichstag was convened in Berlin and before it was laid forthwith the constitutional projet, to which the Bundesrath had already given its assent.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
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 Sir Thomas Erskine Holland
In the last fifteen days of the session the projet of the Constitution was printed for proof-reading and for corrections twenty- four times.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. Boutwell
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
It is easy to ridicule some of his projets, and dismiss him as a crank who was also somewhat of a bore.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
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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