projetn.
/ˈprɒʒeɪ/, U.S. /proʊˈʒeɪ/ A proposition, a proposal; the draft of a proposed treaty or agreement. Also more generally: = project n. 2. Now chiefly in French contexts.
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1808 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 108 It [sc. the form of treaty] should be considered but as a projet.
1812 Edinb. Rev. Nov. 274 After various projets had been offered and rejected, she made these three conditions.
1813 W. Scott Let. 18 May (1932) III. 271 After many offs and ons, and as many projets and contre-projets as the treaty of Amiens, I have at length concluded a treaty with Constable.
1836 N. Tucker Partisan Leader I. xiii. 119 Here..is his first projet of an apology, and of my rejection of it.
1923 Polit. Sci. Q. 38 357 The first appendix gives the projet of the treaty and the second the treaty itself.
1956 R. F. Nichols in W. A. Williams Shaping Amer. Diplomacy 290 Everett had made some progress in negotiations..and when Marcy entered the department he found the projet of a treaty already prepared.
1979 Dædalus Winter 2 There was..a collective projet at the outset.
2000 H. Drake Jacques Delors ii. 39 Delors was closely associated in writing the speech with which Chaban launched his projet to the National Assembly on 16 September 1969.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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