draft

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noun

1 rough/early version of a written document

ADJECTIVE

▪ early, first, initial, original, preliminary

▪ rough, working

▪ revised

▪ final

VERB + DRAFT

▪ draw up, prepare, produce, write

▪

She produced an initial draft of her plans.

▪ complete, finish

▪

I finished the first draft in late August 2007.

▪ send, submit

▪

I sent an early draft to an agent.

▪

The students were invited to submit drafts for feedback.

▪ review

▪

He reviewed an earlier draft of this manuscript.

▪ approve

▪

The preliminary draft of the agreement has been approved.

▪ issue, publish, release

DRAFT + NOUN

▪ agreement, bill, budget, constitution, contract, document, letter, report, treaty

▪ law, legislation

▪ plan, proposal

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the draft

▪

These details were not included in the preliminary draft.

PHRASES

▪ in draft form (esp. BrE)

▪

The document is still in draft form.

2 the draft (esp. AmE) order to serve in the armed forces ⇨ See also ↑conscription

ADJECTIVE

▪ military

VERB + THE DRAFT

▪ avoid, dodge

▪ oppose, support

▪ bring back, reinstate

3 (AmE) current of air ⇨ See ↑draught

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(also draught esp. in BrE) verb

ADVERB

▪ carefully, properly (esp. BrE), well

▪ badly, poorly

▪

Some of the clauses in the contract had been very poorly drafted.

▪ originally

▪

The bill as originally drafted would have made the tobacco companies a lot more vulnerable to lawsuits.

▪ hastily, quickly

▪

hastily drafted pieces of legislation

Draft is used with these nouns as the object: ↑amendment, ↑bill, ↑charter, ↑constitution, ↑contract, ↑document, ↑law, ↑legislation, ↑letter, ↑memo, ↑memorandum, ↑paper, ↑petition, ↑plan, ↑player, ↑proposal, ↑resolution, ↑tackle, ↑treaty, ↑will

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adj.

Draft is used with these nouns: ↑agreement, ↑amendment, ↑animal, ↑beer, ↑bill, ↑budget, ↑charter, ↑constitution, ↑convention, ↑copy, ↑directive, ↑document, ↑guideline, ↑horse, ↑legislation, ↑manuscript, ↑paper, ↑proposal, ↑recommendation, ↑regulation, ↑report, ↑resolution, ↑riot, ↑script, ↑strategy, ↑text, ↑treaty, ↑version