- a piece of work involving careful study of a subject over a period of time, done by school or college students
- a history project
- project on something My class is doing a project on medieval towns.
- The final term will be devoted to project work.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- class
- school
- French
- …
- do
- work
- project on
- a planned piece of work that is designed to find information about something, to produce something new, or to improve something
- We worked on various projects together.
- About 300 schools are involved in the project.
- to fund/finance a project
- to start/launch/initiate a project
- to undertake/complete a project
- a building/construction project
- project to do something They've set up a research project to investigate the harmful effects of air pollution.
- Work has begun on a project to build a new hospital.
- project on something They are taking part in a project on reducing food waste.
- a project manager/team
Extra Examples- The company runs large construction projects.
- She embarked on an ambitious project to translate all the works of Plato.
- We are seeking funding for this project.
- He needed some financial assistance from the bank to get his project off the ground.
- The project aims to reduce homelessness.
- The scheme will be extended throughout the country after a successful six-month pilot project.
- The wedding became her pet project, and she spent hours organizing it.
- The proposed reform project contains some interesting ideas.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- ambitious
- big
- huge
- …
- get off the ground
- implement
- initiate
- …
- aim to
- be aimed at something
- management
- coordinator
- director
- …
- the aim of the project
- somebody’s current project
- somebody’s latest project
- …
- a set of aims, ideas or activities that somebody is interested in or wants to bring to people’s attention
- The party attempted to assemble its aims into a focused political project.
- (also housing project)(North American English) a group of houses or apartments built for poor families, usually with government money
- I was raised in the projects.
school/college work
planned work
set of aims/activities
housing
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘preliminary design, tabulated statement’): from Latin projectum ‘something prominent’, neuter past participle of proicere ‘throw forth’, from pro- ‘forth’ + jacere ‘to throw’. Early senses of the verb were ‘plan’ and ‘cause to move forward’.
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