Results

Definition of drafting : of Draft

Synonyms:

drawing off, draught, lottery, draftsmanship, mechanical drawing, draft

gusting, ventilating, blowing, puffing, raging, breezing, wailing, exhaling, storming, roaring, squalling, blustering

development, formulation, arrangement, preparation, fabrication, construction, composition, mobilization, equipment, fostering

equipping, arranging, fashioning, outfitting, mobilizing, marshalling, currying, making, preparing, constructing, composing, fabricating, readying, dressing, setting, formulating, priming, warming up, developing, devising, fitting, furnishing

planning, profiling, circumscribing, delineating, framing, contouring, outlining, forming, drawing, silhouetting, figuring, sketching, tracing, representing

Usage examples:

• But as an incapacity for any kind of thought is now regarded as statesmanship, there is nothing so very novel about such slovenly drafting. - "Eugenics and Other Evils", G. K. Chesterton.
• Another is that there seems to be some fatal defect in the drafting of the will itself. - "The Eye of Osiris", R. Austin Freeman.
• Paragraph 3 was inserted because it was felt that the drafting of amendments to the Covenant was too technical a matter to be done hastily. - "The Geneva Protocol", David Hunter Miller.