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Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: ela‧bo‧rát
Noun
elaborát m inan
- written treatise on a specific subject
Chtěl jsem, aby mi udělal krátkou rešerši, a on místo toho napsal dvacetistránkový elaborát!- I asked him to do a little background research for me and he wrote a twenty-page treatise instead!
- (dated) formal draft, memorandum or other similar document.
Usage notes
Often used ironically or dismissively to describe unnecessarily long written output (see example above).
Declension
Declension of elaborát (hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- “elaborát”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “elaborát”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “elaborát” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2024, slovnikcestiny.cz
- “elaborát”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)