"shovel-ready" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "First used by Barack Obama during an interview with Meet the Press on 6 December 2008.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more shovel-ready",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most shovel-ready",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shovel-ready (comparative more shovel-ready, superlative most shovel-ready)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Urban Land Institute, Urban Land, volume 62, numbers 7-12, page 44",
          "text": "LCDC officials emphasize that the need for shovel-ready industrial sites in this case outweighs the goal of preserving prime farmland.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 15, Jennifer Lewington, “Battle brews over ‘shovel ready’ projects”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page A12",
          "text": "With an eye to the imminent federal budget, Toronto business and civic leaders are set today to name $4.8-billion in \"shovel-ready\" projects that would stimulate the flagging local economy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 20, “Network News: Mayor urges funding advance”, in Rail, page 13",
          "text": "He wants the money injected into major infrastructure schemes and claims there are \"several shovel-ready schemes just awaiting funding\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ready for immediate commencement of excavation and construction."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "ready",
          "ready"
        ],
        [
          "immediate",
          "immediate"
        ],
        [
          "commencement",
          "commencement"
        ],
        [
          "excavation",
          "excavation"
        ],
        [
          "construction",
          "construction"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Of a building project",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Of a building project) ready for immediate commencement of excavation and construction."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
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          "word": "shovel ready"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Describing a project which is a candidate for economic stimulus spending, the one having a more immediate impact on the economy as opposed to the project requiring a great deal of time that must elapse for architecture, zoning, legal considerations or other factors before labor can be deployed on it."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "project",
          "project"
        ],
        [
          "candidate",
          "candidate"
        ],
        [
          "economic",
          "economic"
        ],
        [
          "stimulus",
          "stimulus"
        ],
        [
          "immediate",
          "immediate"
        ],
        [
          "impact",
          "impact"
        ],
        [
          "labor",
          "labor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Describing a project which is a candidate for economic stimulus spending, the one having a more immediate impact on the economy as opposed to the project requiring a great deal of time that must elapse for architecture, zoning, legal considerations or other factors before labor can be deployed on it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Barack Obama",
    "Meet the Press"
  ],
  "word": "shovel-ready"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "First used by Barack Obama during an interview with Meet the Press on 6 December 2008.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more shovel-ready",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most shovel-ready",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shovel-ready (comparative more shovel-ready, superlative most shovel-ready)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Urban Land Institute, Urban Land, volume 62, numbers 7-12, page 44",
          "text": "LCDC officials emphasize that the need for shovel-ready industrial sites in this case outweighs the goal of preserving prime farmland.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 15, Jennifer Lewington, “Battle brews over ‘shovel ready’ projects”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page A12",
          "text": "With an eye to the imminent federal budget, Toronto business and civic leaders are set today to name $4.8-billion in \"shovel-ready\" projects that would stimulate the flagging local economy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 20, “Network News: Mayor urges funding advance”, in Rail, page 13",
          "text": "He wants the money injected into major infrastructure schemes and claims there are \"several shovel-ready schemes just awaiting funding\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ready for immediate commencement of excavation and construction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ready",
          "ready"
        ],
        [
          "immediate",
          "immediate"
        ],
        [
          "commencement",
          "commencement"
        ],
        [
          "excavation",
          "excavation"
        ],
        [
          "construction",
          "construction"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Of a building project",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Of a building project) ready for immediate commencement of excavation and construction."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Describing a project which is a candidate for economic stimulus spending, the one having a more immediate impact on the economy as opposed to the project requiring a great deal of time that must elapse for architecture, zoning, legal considerations or other factors before labor can be deployed on it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "project",
          "project"
        ],
        [
          "candidate",
          "candidate"
        ],
        [
          "economic",
          "economic"
        ],
        [
          "stimulus",
          "stimulus"
        ],
        [
          "immediate",
          "immediate"
        ],
        [
          "impact",
          "impact"
        ],
        [
          "labor",
          "labor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Describing a project which is a candidate for economic stimulus spending, the one having a more immediate impact on the economy as opposed to the project requiring a great deal of time that must elapse for architecture, zoning, legal considerations or other factors before labor can be deployed on it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "shovel ready"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Barack Obama",
    "Meet the Press"
  ],
  "word": "shovel-ready"
}