How to say "project" in Japanese

• プロジェクトCommon
  nounThe noun sense: a project as an organized undertaking, typically in business or work. This is the word you want when you simply mean 'a project' rather than the plan behind it.
  そのプロジェクトは現在げんざい進行中しんこうちゅうである。↗

  The project is now in progress.
• 計画けいかくJLPT N4approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbReally 'plan' or 'scheme': a decided course of action or schedule. Its 'project' sense is secondary — choose it when the plan itself, not the undertaking as a whole, is what you mean.
  その計画けいかくでは彼かれに同調どうちょうできました。↗

  We went with him on that plan.
• 企画きかくJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbReally 'planning' or 'plan': devising and arranging a scheme. Its 'project' sense fits when the emphasis is on the planning and organizing behind a project rather than the project as a whole.
  私はあなたの企画きかくに参加さんかする。↗

  I take part in your enterprise.
• 映すうつすJLPT N2approx.Common
  godan verb, transitive verbThe verb sense: to project an image, as onto a screen, and also to reflect or cast a shadow. Use it for putting a picture onto a screen or for reflections and shadows generally.
  一いち本ぽんの高たかい木きが水面すいめんに長ながい影かげを映うつしている。↗

  A tall tree projects its long shadow on the water.
• 映し出すうつしだすCommon
  godan verb, transitive verbAlso the verb sense, with the nuance of bringing an image out clearly: to project or show something on a screen, or to reflect it, as in a mirror or on a lake.
  月つきが湖みずうみに映し出うつしだされていた。↗

  The moon was reflected in the lake.

For the noun sense of an organized undertaking, 「プロジェクト」 is the direct choice, while 計画 and 企画 really denote plans and planning; for the verb sense of projecting or reflecting an image, use 「映す」 or 「映し出す」.

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• プロジェクトproject
• 計画けいかくplan
• 企画きかくplanning
• 映すうつすto project
• 映し出すうつしだすto project
• 飛び出るとびでるto project
• 張り出すはりだすto project
• 突き出すつきだすto push out
• 突き出るつきでるto project
• 企てくわだてplan
• 企図きとplan
• テーマtheme
• 出っ張るでっぱるto project
• 出張るでばるto project
• ＰＪピー・ジェーproject
• 事業計画じぎょうけいかくbusiness plan
• 事計じけいbusiness plan
• 投企とうきprojection
• 目論見もくろみplan
• 調略ちょうりゃくplan
• 飛び出すとびだすto protrude
• 案件あんけんproject
• たたえるto express (an emotion)
• 愚策ぐさく(one's own) plan
• 事業じぎょう(social) project