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A subscriber; a season ticket holder.
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(management) A task; especially, regarding an agenda item discussed in a meeting that requires further activity or investigation in order to reach a conclusion, select an alternative, or implement a change.
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A planned series of actions, tasks or steps designed to achieve an objective or goal.
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Obsolete form of agendum. [(obsolete) A task which ought to be done.]
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A form one fills in when applying for a job, placement, course, service etc.
adv
Through the collaborative efforts of multiple contributors, as a team or committee assigned to accomplish a goal; especially as known for protracted proceedings, a lack of responsiveness, or undesired results.
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A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
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An examination that assesses a person's existing knowledge rather than coming at the end of a taught course.
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(intransitive) To be presented as a cofeature.
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(operations) The method used to plan, coordinate, control, and monitor distributed complex projects..
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(management) A project management technique to review construction processes and potential obstacles from start to finish, before building begins.
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(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
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A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
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A plan; a set of intended actions, through which one intends to achieve a goal.
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An examination used by an educational institution to select which students it will grant admission to.
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(diplomacy) the final section of a document, often involving a formulaic close (e.g. “Yours faithfully”), the date and location of writing, and information on the document's originators e.g. author, counter-signer, witnesses present, etc.
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(business) A call to potential providers of goods and/or services to register interest in supplying them. Commonly a document describing requirements or specifications and seeking information from potential providers that demonstrate their ability to meet those requirements.
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(transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
adj
Alternative spelling of first-come-first-served [Describing a process of dealing with people using the principle "first come, first served".]
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(idiomatic) Any strategy devised to reach a given objective.
v
(informal, uncommon) To put on a guestlist.
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(Ireland, law) The draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament.
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A brief informal description of how to accomplish a specific task.
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Synonym of in-tray exercise
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(by extension) The amount of new work yet to be done.
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The use of a simulated in-tray for training potential employees.
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A commonly used description for law enforcement or help desk events.
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An outline of the description of the tasks and responsibilities in a post within an organization.
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A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
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entered on a list, especially an official one
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(education) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
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A comprehensive document that sets out an overall strategy; the strategy itself.
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A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process).
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(idiomatic) To plan out a project as a series of major steps.
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(military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
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A task which needs to be completed.
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A preliminary plan for a project.
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(finance) A preliminary prospectus, relating to a proposed company flotation, that does not state the expected price of shares.
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A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
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One's original plan or approach (contrasted with plan B or plan C, as alternatives).
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An alternative approach adopted when one's original plan does not succeed.
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An alternative solution adopted when two previous plans do not succeed.
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(accounting) Synonym of entry date
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(Britain) A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
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(US) A science exam in which students are questioned about specimens or other objects placed in front of them.
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A particular method for performing a task.
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(always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
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A series of events which produce a result (the product).
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A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
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A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner.
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A manual of processions; a processional.
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A process, or projecting part.
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A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
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to carry out project management.
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(operations) The discipline of organizing and managing resources (e.g. people) in such a way that a project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints.
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The organization of business management around project teams as opposed to functional groups.
adj
Having an organizational structure based around project teams rather than functional groups.
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(obsolete) design; contrivance; projection
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Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.
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Obsolete form of projector. [Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.]
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A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.
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(usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
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A document which describes a proposed endeavor (venture, undertaking), such as a literary work (which one proposes to write).
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(business) A formal publicly released document outlining a need and inviting businesses to submit plans to fulfill that need.
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Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes
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A systematic plan of future action.
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A person or thing that is on a shortlist
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One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.
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A task in psychology experiments where the subject is asked to memorize a list of items and then identify whether a particular item was present in the list, the subject's response time being recorded.
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(slang, Internet, transitive) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).
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A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
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A set of (related) tasks
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(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
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Alternative form of timesaver [An act which allows one to accomplish a task more quickly.]
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A task that has been noted as one that must be completed, especially on a list.
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(especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
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(countable) A project that has been started but is not complete.
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(management) An authorization to expend resources to perform a task.
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(project management) An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.
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(business) A process or procedure by which tasks are completed. It may be defined by a flowchart with actors, actions, results, decisions, and action paths.
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The temporary name of a product or project (such as a film or video game), when under development; often changed when released.
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(idiomatic, management) The basic delineation of roles in a project.
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