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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
draft/drɑːft/
▶noun
  • 1 a preliminary version of a piece of writing.

    ■ a plan or sketch.

  • 2 a written order to pay a specified sum.
  • 3 (the draft) US compulsory recruitment for military service.
  • 4 N. Amer. a procedure whereby sports players are made available for selection or reselection by the teams in a league.
▶verb
  • 1 prepare a preliminary version of (a text).
  • 2 send (a person or group) somewhere for a particular purpose.

    ■ US conscript for military service.
– derivatives
drafter noun.
– origin C16: phonetic spelling of draught.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
draught /drɑːft/ (US draft)
▶noun
  • 1 a current of cool air in a room or confined space.
  • 2 a single act of drinking or inhaling.

    ■ literary or archaic a quantity of a liquid with medicinal properties: a sleeping draught.

  • 3 the depth of water needed to float a particular ship: her shallow draught.
  • 4 the drawing in of a fishing net.

    ■ a catch of fish.

▶verb variant spelling of draft. ▶adjective
  • 1 (of beer) served from a cask rather than from a bottle or can.
  • 2 (of an animal) used for pulling heavy loads.
– phrases
on draught (of beer) ready to be drawn from a cask.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘drawing, pulling’): from ON dráttr, of Gmc origin; cf. draft.



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