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n. (pet project English)
Usage examples of "pet projects".
Even if Saddam chose to follow a policy of high production and low oil prices, the enormous revenues he would be collecting would allow him almost limitless spending on his WMD programs, terrorism, and other pet projects.
Dade commissioners regularly dipped into port funds to pay for pet projects.
They were putting the finishing touches on the first manned flight to Mars in spite of a concerted effort by both the left and right in Congress to kill it, as usual (the capacity to dream tends to be the first thing you lose when you run for office, apparently, unless it's dreaming of being president), and there were the usual science geeks there who also wanted to kill it because they thought it was stealing money from their pet projects.
None of the pet projects overlooked by Governor Dick Artemus made the newspapers, but the vetos did.
Those problems were for other men -- he had a large variety of pet projects of his own going.
Such as the pressure Cornelius was applying for Bootstrap to get involved with another of Eschatology's pet projects: the Milton Foundation.