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
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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
Fouquet's answer to Séguier, during the examination on the "projet," was much admired, and repeated out-of-doors.
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
After mentioning the various reports, he says, "De tous ces divers projets qu'on s'imagine aucun n'est venu a la cognoissance du public."
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
In the winter, unless some of her various plans succeed, for she may be called la fille aux mille projets, she will return to Florence.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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