Definition of blueprint
1 : a photographic print in white on a bright blue ground or blue on a white ground used especially for copying maps, mechanical drawings, and architects' plans
2 : something resembling a blueprint (as in serving as a model or providing guidance); especially : a detailed plan or program of action a blueprint for victory
blueprint
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Examples of blueprint in a Sentence
a blueprint for reforming the public school system
an ambitious young man with a remarkably detailed blueprint for becoming a millionaire by the age of 25
Recent Examples of blueprint from the Web
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If approved by Congress, the 2018 budget blueprint would lower overall refugee funding to $2.7 billion from $3.1 billion — a 13 percent drop.
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At Ulbricht’s sentencing, prosecutors warned that Silk Road had been used as a blueprint for other online criminals.
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Voyles designs the sign's blueprint, but bending neon tubes is a special skill.
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Osborn sold off most of its archive, including the original blueprints for Yankee Stadium, more than a decade ago.
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The mutation appears in the genes serving as blueprints for antibodies made by white blood cells.
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As a non-binding statement of priorities, the budget had once been a point of pride for House Republicans, who rallied behind the entitlement reforms and tax cuts in the blueprints Ryan wrote as chairman of the Budget Committee.
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The fast food juggernaut has been lauded in the press for learning from those painful experiences and for drafting a blueprint to quickly replace an ailing CEO.
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Inflammation is for the winter, when genes uncoil in your blood and messengers send codes containing the blueprints for proteins to protect you from the harsh diseases of the cold.
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First Known Use of blueprint
1857
BLUEPRINT Defined for English Language Learners
blueprint
playDefinition of blueprint for English Language Learners
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: a photographic print that shows how something (such as a building) will be made
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: a detailed plan of how to do something
BLUEPRINT Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of blueprint for Students
1 : a photographic print made with white lines on a blue background and showing how something will be made
2 : a detailed plan of something to be done
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