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black project

[ blak proj-ekt, -ikt ]

noun

  1. a covert undertaking by a country’s military and defense forces, often carried out at a secret location, outside the law and other systems of protection and oversight:

    It would later be revealed that development of the stealth bomber had been a black project with an unlimited “black budget.”



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Word History and Origins

Origin of black project1

Coined in 1727, in the sense of “plotting a mutiny,” by English author Daniel Defoe ( def ) in A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before

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