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Answer for the clue "Draw up an outline or sketch for something ", 8 letters:
drafting

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Drafting or draughting may refer to: Campdrafting , an Australian equestrian sport Drafting (aerodynamics) , slipstreaming Technical drawing , the act and discipline of composing diagrams that communicates how something functions or is to be constructed. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
drafting \drafting\ n. writing a first version to be filled out and polished later. the craft of drawing blueprints. Syn: mechanical drawing. a creation of artistic drawings. Syn: drawing, draftsmanship.

Usage examples of drafting.

Random-transportive design is a finicky task, in which a minor error by one drafter throws out the work of a whole drafting team.

Alex Gibney shared transcripts of some of the excellent interviews he conducted concerning the American drafting of a new Japanese constitution.

As prisoners, however, they quickly proved docile and obedient to their captors, even to the point of assisting in drafting surrender appeals to their erstwhile comrades.

Colonel Charles Kades, an exemplary New Dealer who would play a pivotal role in such critical Government Section initiatives as the drafting of a new constitution, later spoke frankly of his own background in this regard.

Colonel Mashbir played a major role in drafting and delivering a series of Japanese-language broadcasts, and his approach was blunt to the point of crudeness.

General MacArthur has entrusted the Government Section with the historically significant task of drafting a new Constitution for the Japanese people.

Constitution was not given much attention as the drafting committee cobbled together its new charter.

Although many members of the drafting committee were uniformed personnel, none were professional military men or women.

A few members of the drafting committee had been trained for military government and had a smattering of Japanese.

This will amount practically to drafting by townships, as the enrollment subdistricts are generally about the extent of townships.

Both large men, the cops linger over a yellow legal pad, drafting an affidavit to support an arrest warrant.

Nixon was going to resign in two days, and Ford had assigned Hartmann the task of drafting the speech he would give upon assuming the presidency.

He began drafting a response for Clinton to give to the interrogatories.

He directed a team of three lawyers to begin drafting a document outlining the information gathered in the Lewinsky probe for possible referral to the House on Clinton.

He and William Kelley, a Notre Dame law professor and former law clerk to Starr, were spending day and night drafting specific grounds for possible impeachment.