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shovel-ready

adj

Etymology

First used by Barack Obama during an interview with Meet the Press on 6 December 2008.

Definitions

  1. ready for immediate commencement of excavation and construction.

    • LCDC officials emphasize that the need for shovel-ready industrial sites in this case outweighs the goal of preserving prime farmland.
    • With an eye to the imminent federal budget, Toronto business and civic leaders are set today to name $4.8-billion in "shovel-ready" projects that would stimulate the flagging local economy.
    • He wants the money injected into major infrastructure schemes and claims there are "several shovel-ready schemes just awaiting funding".

  2. Describing a project which is a candidate for economic stimulus spending, the one having…

    Describing a project which is a candidate for economic stimulus spending, the one having a more immediate impact on the economy as opposed to the project requiring a great deal of time that must elapse for architecture, zoning, legal considerations or other factors before labor can be deployed on it.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA