charrette
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Etymology
Borrowed from French charrette, from Middle French charrete, from Old French charrete, from char + -ete (“diminutive”), from Latin carrus. Sense “work to meet a deadline” from French, probably from architecture students loading their work into a cart (pulled by the youngest member) on the day of an exposition.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
charrette (plural charrettes)
- (US) A period of intense work, especially group work undertaken to meet a deadline.
Related terms
References
- Gaston Esnault (1966)
- “charrette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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