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draft

Definition

  • noun: a version of something (such as a document) that you make before you make the final version
  • noun: the act of drawing a net
  • verb: to make a version of (something, such as a document or plan) that will need more work in order to be finished
  • verb: to select for some purpose
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: dose, detach, select

Examples

  • I just completed a 'rough draft' [=a first version that needs a lot of editing and rewriting] of my speech.

  • He's a 'draft dodger'. [=a person who illegally avoids joining the armed forces]

  • You may want to seal the windows with plastic to stop 'drafts'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - I have seen nothing - What does this mean, my lord? - The king doth wake tonight and takes his muse Keeps wassail and a swaggering upspring reels, and as he drains his drafts of rhenish down... ...the kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge - Is it a custom? (..)
    2015 Hamlet