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crash program

noun

  1. a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem:

    a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of crash program1

First recorded in 1945–50
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A crash program to develop a cattle equivalent might make sense, says Carol Cardona, an avian influenza specialist and poultry veterinarian at the University of Minnesota.

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Manhattan Project, the World War II–era crash program to build the first-ever atomic bombs.

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Much of the pain and disruption that will result from the now-necessary crash program would have been avoided.

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While some officials recognized the urgency of a crash program of testing and masks, “Kadlec had no money, no real emergency fund.”

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Years after watching both China and Russia develop and field hypersonic missiles, the Pentagon is engaged in a crash program to build its own version of the maneuvering high-speed missiles.

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