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pet project
noun as in enterprise
Strong matches
noun as in venture
Example Sentences
The program, called “CBS Mornings Plus,” is a pet project of Wendy McMahon, chief executive of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures.
That led to a position on a team at IBM secretly designing the world’s fastest supercomputer, a pet project of IBM President Thomas Watson Jr. Conway moved with the team to Menlo Park, Calif., in the years before the surrounding landscape was dubbed Silicon Valley.
The Mayan Train is a pet project of López Obrador to build a tourist train around the Yucatan peninsula.
The museum was the pet project of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, who had seen firsthand that British manufactured goods were not always top of the class.
It was a pet project of Republican Senate Finance Committee Chairman Harvey Peeler and backed by Republican House Speaker Murrell Smith It passed the Senate on a 44-1 vote and the House on a 98-15 vote.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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