project

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 93.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
2. noun An urban, low-income housing building.

   Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.

3. noun An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

   a man given to projects

4. noun A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot, diamond in the rough.
5. noun A projectile.
6. noun A projection.
7. verb To extend beyond a surface.
8. verb To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

Similar words

propose see task externalize contrive design envision labor image fancy

Often followed by

of is was and in to for management manager

Word family

projectable projected projecting projection projections projects