pilot project

1. 1.

   activity planned as a test or trial

   “they funded a pilot project in six states”

   Synonymspilot program

   Broadertest

Questions about pilot project

What does pilot project mean?

pilot project means "activity planned as a test or trial".

What is another word for pilot project?

Close synonyms include pilot program. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pilot project a common word?

pilot project is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.