BLUEPRINT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of blueprint in English

(Definition of blueprint from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of blueprint

blueprint
In contemporary economies, the most important assets are immaterial: blueprints and production methods are often much more costly1 and valuable than machinery and land.
As long as the provider uses systematically developed blueprints flexibly, they can be useful guides to assessment and intervention at particular stages for particular problems.
There are no blueprints available on the management of the planning process, including the regional research priority-setting approaches and methods to be used.
The intermediate-good firm that buys these "blueprints," imports computer equipment (general capital) and uses the two to produce software services.
In so doing, he reaches conclusions that do not suppor t or complement explanations based on cognitive or linguistic blueprints.
The chromosomes of the nucleus are perceived as being the blueprints - the idea - upon which the body is constructed.
Moreover, narrative construction is a continuous process since we not only craft but revise the story of our lives, creating new blueprints that facilitate further architectural development of the self.
Utopian blueprints, but, on the contrary, brick by brick, and that already there is a great deal of it in certain provisions.
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In the quest for realism, television or film producers often give blueprints to criminals.
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I do not ask for blueprints and tedious ministerial decisions, but a fast-moving and aggressive industrial operation.
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Very often those rigid blueprints simply reflect the views of those who are going to work in them initially.
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We have all seen, even in the post-1973 energy era, what can be the fate of blueprints.
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I am not talking about grand blueprints for the future.
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Behind them, much more significantly, come the merchants with their bulging pocket books and the industrialists with their latest blueprints.
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They are not blueprints, nor do they set precedents to be followed by every district health authority.
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Translations of blueprint

in Chinese (Traditional)
藍圖, 早期計劃, 早期設計…
in Chinese (Simplified)
蓝图, 早期计划, 早期设计…
in Spanish
blueprint, copia de plano, plano…
in Portuguese
blueprint, planta, modelo…
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proje, plan, ozalit kopya…
bleu [masculine], modèle, projet…
青写真(あおじゃしん)…
blauwdruk…
plán, nákres…
blåtryk…
rancangan…
พิมพ์เขียว…
bản kế hoạch…
projekt, plan…
planritning, utkast…
merangka tindak…
die Blaupause…
plantegning [masculine], plan, blåkopi…
детальний проект, план…
проект…
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