I'm looking for a fairly formal word describing a project (especially business one) that is not in an advanced state of realization and is not specified partcularly. The following words have come up to my mind: undertaking, initiative, and I'm not sure about intent. Thank you for help!
Synonyms for project, undertaking, enterprise...
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Intent is a synonym of purpose or aim.
For project, There's Enterprise, venture, plan, scheme besides undertaking. I would rule out initiative.
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From your description I would say your project is in the 'planning stage' or 'preliminary stage'. Maybe you are conducting a 'feasibility study'?
Hope this helps, please post if you don't understand anything or want further clarification.
From your description I would say your project is in the 'planning stage' or 'preliminary stage'. Maybe you are conducting a 'feasibility study'?
Hope this helps, please post if you don't understand anything or want further clarification.
Thank your for help!
I need a single word that expresses "project at an initial stage" best and can be used to describe a business entity. It is more like a proposition of a project.
From what you've said it seems that "undertaking" is the best choice. Are you sure that intention can't be used in this context?
I need a single word that expresses "project at an initial stage" best and can be used to describe a business entity. It is more like a proposition of a project.
From what you've said it seems that "undertaking" is the best choice. Are you sure that intention can't be used in this context?
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I'm sure that "intention" won't work.
There's nothing inherent in either initiative or undertaking that tells you that it has just started, though.
If it's a proposal, it hasn't started at all.
Everything else is simply in the initial or preliminary stages, whether it's a project, an undertaking, and initiative, or a program.
There's nothing inherent in either initiative or undertaking that tells you that it has just started, though.
If it's a proposal, it hasn't started at all.
Everything else is simply in the initial or preliminary stages, whether it's a project, an undertaking, and initiative, or a program.
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:up: Or you could be more specific (in the case of an engineering project): 'It's only at proof-of-concept stage.' (If you didn't object to business clichés, you could 'run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes' - but that is far from formal).
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You could say that you're testing the waters
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