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.

Origin of crash program

1
First recorded in 1945–50

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How to use crash program in a sentence

  • At the same time a crash program to develop a counter to it is already showing promising results.

    Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • But a crash program for time travel, now that was something else.

    Disaster Revisited | Darius John Granger
  • A crash program for the development of the projector is already under way.

    Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • We must not return to the "crash-program" psychology of the past when each new feint by the Communists was responded to in panic.

  • In theory, such a crash program, with Jason Wall's money and industrial know-how behind it, was a possibility.

    Disaster Revisited | Darius John Granger