draft

[dræft]

Definition:
1. A document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another.
2. A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle).
3. A preliminary sketch of a design or picture.
4. A serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg.

Use 'draft' in a sentence:

1. This is the draft of a declaration that will be issued at the end of the aforementioned U.N. conference.
2. As is the way with these gatherings, the declarations were largely drafted before the delegations arrived.
3. It's not so simple. They'll have to let the draft board know, and then where will we be?
4. Government should also draft relevant regulations as soon as possible.
5. Payments must be made in U.S. dollars by a bank draft drawn to the order of the United Nations Postal Administration.
6. The proposal has been embodied in a draft resolution.
7. I finished my draft some time ago.
8. They were drafted into the army.
9. Actually it was my computer that lost it, the first draft of it.
10. When the first draft was completed, Nichols typed it up.
11. They felt he had been cowardly in manipulating the system to avoid the draft.
12. You can write a draft review, but you have to visit the Yelp website to post it.
13. If a relevant and important idea occurs to you now, work it into the draft.
14. They presented their draft to the president, who looked it over, nodded and signed it.
15. He's now revising the first draft of his essay.
16. Payments should be made by credit card or bank draft in U.S. dollars.
17. James, I've had a look over your case study and for a first draft, it looks promising.
18. Ten days later Carmen received a bank draft for a plane ticket.
19. He drafted a standard letter to the editors.
20. I'm supposed to have handed in a first draft of my dissertation.
21. Right Stewart, well I've read your draft report on your work placement at the Central Museum Association.
22. After I have finished the draft, I'm totally burnt out.
23. Let's go over the draft once again.
24. How easy would it be to write if you knew your first draft would stink?
25. This is a far weaker formulation than is in the draft resolution which is being proposed.
26. Finally, my thanks go to my tutor, who has polished every page of my draft.
27. I rewrote his rough draft, which was published under my name.
28. Can you shut the door? There's a draft in here.
29. You pay for the car by banker's draft in the local currency.
30. He wasn't drafted for the war; he volunteered for the Navy.
31. Please propose amendments and addenda to the first draft of the document.
32. During the Second World War, he was drafted into the US Army.
33. You can draft a letter.
34. The manifesto is long-winded, repetitious and often ambiguous or poorly drafted.
35. I faxed a first draft of this article to him.
36. The drafting committee worked through the night in a vain attempt to finish on schedule.
37. The legislation was drafted by House Democrats.
38. The latest draft of the agreement codifies the panel's decision.
39. Submit a final draft of your essay on March 9.
40. Officials have now been delegated to start work on a draft settlement.
41. I've made a rough draft of the letter.
42. The opposition says the legislation was drafted with indecent haste.
43. Payment must be made by bank draft drawn on a UK bank.
44. I know that this draft text will need to be edited.
45. Revise the draft to improve its content.
46. The manager will make a special plea to draft the player into his squad as a replacement.
47. The assembly was mandated to draft a constitution.
48. The legislation is still in draft form.
49. This is only the first draft of my speech.