probject

English

Etymology

Blend of problem +‎ project

Noun

probject (plural probjects)

1. A problematic project.
   • 1952, United States. Supreme Court, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court‎^[1], United States. Supreme Court, page 310:

     Q. Now as a matter of fact, isn't it true that on the occasion of this visit to your office by Mr. Rosenthaler he came there to discuss primarily the matter of this sinter development probject? A. That is what he told me. Q. And that in the course of the conversation you were the one who first initiated the matter of license under the Gelbman patent and asked him why a license could not be obtained under the patents.

   • 1977 November 24, Barry Hindess, “‘Substantivism’ as a Comparative Theory of Economic Forms”, in Sociological Theories of the Economy‎^[2], illustrated edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 89:

     Yet it is at the theoretical level that problems persist and must be tackled so that the content of existing empirical studies may be given an adequately theoretically founded interpretation. While ‘substantivism’ cannot realise the probject of providing a foundation for a comparative theory of economic forms, the rigorous development of Marxist theory presents engaging possibilities.

   • 1991, George Sebastian Rousseau, “Wicked Whiston and the English wits”, in Enlightenment Borders: Pre- and Post-modern Discourses: Medical, Scientific‎^[3], volume 2, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 339:

     Authorship of the prose satire remains problematic: it has been attributed at one time or another to Gay, Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot, all of whom have a claim; but whichever of these authors actually composed it, it clearly remains a Scriblerian probject.

   • 2012 August 6, Brian Brock, John Swinton, “14 The Importance of Being a Creature: Stanley Hauerwas on Disability”, in Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader‎^[4], reprint edition, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 521:

     Nevertheless, it may be that Hauerwas's focus suggests that people with profound disabilities are merely useful vehicles for his broader theological probject (Hauerwas 1999, 1), which raises significant issues regarding the pastoral utility of his position. One of the problems is that Hauerwas's personal memory of people with disability is distant (Hauerwas 1999, 13).

   • 2014 May 21, Anders Cullhed, Lena Rydholm, “Image Language Identity”, in True Lies Worldwide: Fictionality in Global Contexts‎^[5], reprint edition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 71:

     In other words, image as such, figure as such, fiction as such appears as something else, in the image of something, in the figure of something, in the fiction of something, even if this “something” is like the king in Hamlet, “a thing - Of nothing” (Scene 4.2), an “absolut” as in Malevich's black quadrat, a “non-object” or “non-figure” in abstractionist and concretist paintings, or even a “probject,” recalling the term suggested by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica to describe his “parangolés.”

   • 2022 April 10, Mike Olsen, “Dead Moon Walking Adventure” (11:45 from the start), in The Great North‎^[6], season 2, episode 17, spoken by Moon Tobin (Aparna Nancherla):

     “Sorry, Dad, no time for sitting. I've got a prob... ject, school probject I need to work on tonight.” “Say no more. From one projecteur to another, I wish you luck.” “You two know about this probject?” “Yeah, we know about it. We're currently monitoring it from afar.”