0 a photographic copy of an early plan for a building or machine --
1 a plan for a building or machine, printed with white lines on a blue background --
2 a complete plan that explains how to do or develop something: --
3 a plan that describes how to do or achieve something in the future: --
4 a copy of a technical drawing that shows white lines on a blue background and is used especially in the building industry: --
They are not blueprints, nor do they set precedents to be followed by every district health authority.
Behind them, much more significantly, come the merchants with their bulging pocket books and the industrialists with their latest blueprints.
I am not talking about grand blueprints for the future.
We have all seen, even in the post-1973 energy era, what can be the fate of blueprints.
Very often those rigid blueprints simply reflect the views of those who are going to work in them initially.
I do not ask for blueprints and tedious ministerial decisions, but a fast-moving and aggressive industrial operation.
In the quest for realism, television or film producers often give blueprints to criminals.
Utopian blueprints, but, on the contrary, brick by brick, and that already there is a great deal of it in certain provisions.