adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
there are moves afoot to do sth British English (= there are plans, especially secret ones, to do something )
▪
There are moves afoot to change things.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
A quick look round the research and development facility in Versailles revealed a number of interesting software projects afoot .
▪
Apparently, moves are afoot to ban smoking in public places.
▪
From information received, it was thought that some illegal activity was afoot .
▪
Plans are now afoot for an important exhibition of Canaletto in England.
▪
There were plans afoot for a second attack.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
But plans are afoot to raise more cash from new programme sales.
▪
Great plans are afoot to ban smoking in public places, resulting in smokers soon becoming complete outcasts in society.
▪
However, there are plans afoot to see if tutoring in primary schools has any effect on performance later on.
▪
Now moves are afoot to mend the situation.
▪
Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
▪
Tammuz was immediately suspicious because he knew the man never broke his routines unless something out of the ordinary was afoot .