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Projects

A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

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📖 Definitions of "Projects"

noun

1
A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
2
(usually in the plural) An urban low-income housing building.
"Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished."
3
An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
"a man given to projects"
4
A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough

verb

1
To extend beyond a surface.
2
To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
3
To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
4
To make plans for; to forecast.
"The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007."

noun

1
(usually preceded by the) One or more high-density urban housing developments for residents having low incomes.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Projects"

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Word	Definition
proposenoun	(obsolete) An objective or aim.
seenoun	A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
tasknoun	A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
externalizeverb	To make something external or objective
contriveverb	To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
designnoun	A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
envisionverb	(transitive) To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
labornoun	(Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
imagenoun	A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
fancynoun	The imagination.
projectionnoun	The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
figurenoun	A drawing or diagram conveying information.
stick outverb	(idiomatic, intransitive) To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive.
jut outverb	(intransitive) To protrude; to extend outwards into space; to stick out.
picturenoun	A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
protrudeverb	(intransitive) To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
plannoun	A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
send offnoun	farewell party
visualizeverb	(transitive) To form a mental picture of (something); to picture (something) in the mind; to envisage.
castnoun	An act of throwing.