pilot

Source: //Warwick Boar// Tuesday, 14 Novermber, 2006. Page 3 "Students may face fingerprinting in Leamington bars and clubs"

Original Sentence: "Six venues in the Warwickshire town of Nuneaton have been chosen to pilot a high-tech biometric system that keeps a fingerprint database of customers to cut down on crime."

Definition: Verb to test a new idea,product etc on people to find out whether it will be successful

eg.The new exams are currently being piloted in a number of areas.

(Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, New Edition, 2003)

'pilot' is also quite common as an adjective meaning 'experimental' or 'test': Examples The scheme provides awards of up to £2,000 per project for exploratory or **pilot** research. Fortunately this was in a **pilot** survey and the warning was heeded in the survey proper. The contract followed fairly quickly, and on 1 January 1992 we began the **pilot** project.