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Definition of Draft

Draft

  1. Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.
  2. Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.
  3. To draw the outline of; to delineate.
  4. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
  5. To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.
  6. To transfer by draft.

Draft Quotations

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Ambrose Bierce

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
P. J. O'Rourke

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts
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Draft Translations

draft in Afrikaans is konsep
draft in Dutch is cambio, wissel
draft in French is traite
draft in German is Ausarbeitung {f}
draft in Italian is lettera di cambio
draft in Norwegian is veksel, utkast
draft in Spanish is proyecto
draft in Swedish is uttag, utkast, koncept

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