charette /ʃɑːˈrɛt/ noun2 •(US) A period of intense work, especially group work undertaken to meet a deadline.Today's charrette is basically a community planning process designed to arrive at implementable plans and solutions to community concerns in a very short time period. — 1977 •A small two-wheeled cart; (historical) a chariot.He was in fierce wrath, because Patrasche had been a strong and much-enduring animal, and because he himself had now the hard task of pushing his charette all the way to Louvain. — 1872 formscharettes
