French Conversation · Level 114
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French word
élaborer
Pronunciation
IPA/elaboʁe/
Meaning
- verbdevelop
Example
Il faut élaborer un plan.
A plan needs to be developed.
More examples
Pour l'exposé, elle doit élaborer une méthode originale.
For the presentation, she has to devise an original method.
Core concept
A rough proposal shaped through successive decisions until it can be carried out.
Common phrases
élaborer des idées
develop ideas
élaborer une méthode
devise a method
Similar words
préparer: Arrange the necessary steps or materials in advance.
réfléchir à: Consider an issue carefully to decide how to proceed.
concevoir: Create a plan or design based on its purpose and requirements.
peaufiner: Refine the small details to improve the final result.
Definition in French
Travailler en détail une proposition, un plan ou un projet afin d'en préciser la forme et la faisabilité.
Word origin
French élaborer is a learned borrowing from Latin elaborare, formed from ex- and laborare, "to work," with the sense of working something out carefully.
Usage tips
- Élaborer normally takes a direct object, as in élaborer un plan, without a preposition before the thing being developed.
Other meanings
- deviseverb
- work outverb
- draw upverb
Opposites
- improviserimproviseverb
Related words
- élaborationdevelopmentnoun
- élaboréwell-developedadjective