project
/ˈpɹɑˌd͡ʒɛkt/ noun B2- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- An urban, low-income housing building. · Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.
- An idle scheme; an impracticable design. · a man given to projects
- A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot, diamond in the rough.
Plural projects
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Nevertheless, it is necessary that my will should be respected in my family, and that the folly of an old man and the caprice of a child should not be allowed to overturn a project which I have entertained for so many years.
“But tell me now, count,” exclaimed Albert, delighted at the idea of having to chaperon so distinguished a person as Monte Cristo; “tell me truly whether you are in earnest, or if this project of visiting Paris is merely one of the chimerical and uncertain air castles of which we make so many in the course of our lives, but which, like a house built on the sand, is liable to be blown over by the first puff of wind?”
“And what is your excellency’s project?”
“That must have cut short the projects of escape.”
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