project
A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
Other meanings
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”
Related words
- ghost project
- astroproject
- bioproject
- counterproject
- project-oriented
- deproject
- interproject
- macroproject
- megaproject
- microproject
- midproject
- multiproject
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "prōiectus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “project” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.