Draft

Definition

draft /drɑ:ft; US dræft/ n ၁။ [C] (စာ)မူၾကမ္း။ ပံုၾကမ္း။ This is only an early/the first draft of my speech, but what do you think of it? ❍ a draft amendment/proposal/report. ၂။ [C] ( finance ) ဘဏ္ေငြလႊဲလႊာ။ a draft on an American bank. ၃။ the draft [sing] ( esp US ) = CONSCRIPTION ၄။ [C] ( US ) = DRAUGHT v ၁။ မူၾကမ္းေရးသည္။ draft a contract/parliamentary bill/treaty ❍ I'll draft the letter for you. ❍ I'm still drafting the first chapter. ၂။ အထူးတာဝန္ဝတၱရား ေဆာင္ရြက္ ရန္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ေစလႊတ္သည္။ Extra police are being drafted in to control the crowds. ၃။ ~ sb(into sth) ( US ) စစ္မႈ မထမ္းမေနရ ဥပေဒအရ စစ္မႈထမ္းေစသည္။ be drafted into the Navy. Compare CONSCRIPT ❏ draft-dodger n ( esp US ) စစ္မႈမထမ္းမေနရ ဥပေဒကို တရားမဝင္ တိမ္းေရွာင္သူ။ ❏ draftee /drɑ:f'ti: ; US dræf'ti:/ n ( US ) ဥပေဒအရ စစ္မႈထမ္းရသူ။ ❏ drafter n ဥပေဒစသည္ မူၾကမ္းေရးဆြဲသူ။

Examples

1. [draft of] : I showed David a draft of the letter and he suggested a few changes.
2. [first/final draft] : My publisher wants to see a first draft by the end of next week.
3. Draft legislation
4. The deposit has to be paid in cash or by draft.