Program
['prəʊɡræm] or ['proɡræm]
Definition
(noun.) a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation; 'the program lasted more than two hours'.
(noun.) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need; 'he proposed an elaborate program of public works'; 'working mothers rely on the day care program'.
(noun.) (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; 'the program required several hundred lines of code'.
(noun.) an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event; 'you can't tell the players without a program'.
(verb.) arrange a program of or for; 'program the 80th birthday party'.
(verb.) write a computer program.
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Definition
(n.) Same as Programme.
Typed by Laverne
Examples
- A more generous interpretation would be to say that he had tried to be inclusive, to attach a hundred sectional agitations to a national program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The socialism of the Fabians soon became a definite legislative program which the various political parties were to be bulldozed, cajoled and tricked into enacting. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Only the delusion that his truth is the whole truth, his party the human race, and his program a panacea, will produce that singleness of vision. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the program, such ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The claim was that these questions should be put aside so as not to disturb the immediate program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The direct actionists are a warning to the Socialist Party that its tactics and its program are not adequate to domesticating the deepest unrest of labor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet the whole nation can't sit at one table: the politician will object that all human interests can't be embodied in a party program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Its task is essentially to carry out programs of service, to add and build and increase the facilities of life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One might ascribe it to a growing sense that concrete programs by themselves will not insure any profound regeneration of society. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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