crash program

noun

1. a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem:

   a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.

Word History and Origins

Origin of crash program¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.

From MIT Technology Review

At the same time a crash program to develop a counter to it is already showing promising results.

From Project Gutenberg

But a crash program for time travel, now that was something else.

From Project Gutenberg

A crash program for the development of the projector is already under way.

From Project Gutenberg

We must not return to the "crash-program" psychology of the past when each new feint by the Communists was responded to in panic.

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In theory, such a crash program, with Jason Wall's money and industrial know-how behind it, was a possibility.

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