rough draft

collocation in English

meaningsofroughanddraft

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rough
adjective
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/rʌf/us
/rʌf/
not even or smooth, often because of being in ...
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draft
noun
uk
/drɑːft/us
/dræft/
a piece of text, a formal suggestion, or a drawing in its original state, often containing the main ideas and intentions but not the ...
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(Definition ofroughanddraftfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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During the same consensus meeting, aroughdraftof a questionnaire about prioritization criteria was presented.
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That letter was a mereroughdraftintended for discussion between him and myself.
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Calligrapher is making aroughdraft.
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Displeased with theroughdraft, she locked the story away.
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In fact, this first report is intended as aroughdraft, the matrix of a new method.
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When theroughdraftof the guidelines was eventually published, it allayed some of the fears that had been raised.
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Aroughdraftof the bill was composed in year 2005.
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All images are done in pencil and frequently left in theirroughdraftstate.
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The firstroughdraftof the screen play took about 5 months.
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King includes part of aroughdraftand an edited draft of his story 1408.
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Aroughdraftof 28,000 words came out of this enforced holiday.
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Theroughdraftfor that thesis is in a briefcase under his bed at this very moment.
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From the pool of possible feature topics thus generated, writers claim ideas to work on and produce aroughdraft.
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A related term in sculpture is a maquette, a small scale model orroughdraftof a proposed work.
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Aroughdraftof a ransom note was found at the house of the owner of the quarry.
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Ohkawa provides aroughdraftfor each chapter detailing things such as dialogue, panel size, props, movement, and character's emotions.
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The artist thus produces a song's demo recording, orroughdraft, in order to pre-establish the song's creative promise.
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Most of thisroughdraftremained in place, and can be found in the final version of the constitution.
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She scribbled down a few pages of aroughdrafttaking place in the 9th century, focusing on an orphaned boy with his wolf cub.
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Several years later, while looking through a pile of old notes, she stumbled upon theroughdraftshe had written in 1980.
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They both oversaw the expedited production of the show, which went from aroughdraftconcept to completed episodes in less than a year.
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It is used to present the main points or topics of a given subject, often used as aroughdraftor summary of the content of a document.
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