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noun

the act or process of making a plan or plans.

Origin:
1740–50; plan + -ing¹

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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IF you think planning a business trip is stressful, try organizing one for thousands of people.

It's easy to switch into automatic pilot mode when it comes to planning a course.

Hand out a letter to the students requesting their help in planning a new town.

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IF you think planning a business trip is stressful, try organizing one for thousands of people.

It's easy to switch into automatic pilot mode when it comes to planning a course.

Hand out a letter to the students requesting their help in planning a new town.

We stood around the body planning our autopsy strategy.

Planning the show and ensuring artifact safety have been gargantuan.

Discover menus and recipes for every occasion, plus tips for planning your best holiday meal.

Metropolitan growth worldwide has sparked a renaissance in models for urban planning.

Families that speak freely about estate planning can sometimes address awkward situations and avoid unwelcome surprises.

Until recent years, colleges engaged in little formal planning.

In all this activity it greatly helps to have a secretive planning bureaucracy and a government that brooks little dissent.

People lose their capacity to perform simple, everyday tasks and show impairments in intellectual abilities such as planning.

Bird watching is growing in popularity, and more and more folks are planning getaways around this hobby.

Double the recipe for the mint syrup if you're planning to make more than one batch of these refreshing summer drinks.

Planning for an emergency once you have kids in the home is absolutely crucial.

The results of a report looking at estate planning resources, online tools and services at various brokerage firms.

Thoughtful planning preserved the pre-recession budgets of all academic departments.

He would seem to have an interest in planning now to hand over to an anointed successor.

Traveling by yourself on a guided tour requires planning.

They are planning on mining the algae for oil afterward and cubing the dried algae up for animal food as well.

Kruse used city planning bureau records to retrace the white movement out of neighborhoods block by block.

Whether you're planning a day-trip or a weekend vacation, find great ideas for exploring the park.

Dig a hole as deep as the one you're planning to put the tree in and fill it with water.

If you think planning a business trip is stressful, try organizing one for thousands of people.

Participates in college and district governance and strategic planning.

If they aren't interesting, they won't win planning permission.

Knowing the jargon of tour operators will help in planning your trip.

The temptation to gain lucrative insider knowledge of corporate planning and intellectual property is a large.

Don't forget to check out a festival map when planning your day's events at the festival.

If you're planning on individual servings of any items, as the host you can always share or.

Instead of planning for failure, they've been stocking up on polish for their crystal balls.

No wonder retirement planning is getting more complex.

Rinella knows a thing or two about planning for campus disasters.

Hamel took corporate strategy away from the precision of traditional planning.

We've gathered tips and links to online planning tools that should make.

Such planning should include the good, the bad and the ugly.

If you are planning a trip, please consider an eco-tour to appreciate wild birds in their natural habitats.

Establishing a new lawn takes advance planning and work.

If any companies out there are planning to come up with an iPad killer, then they'd better think hard about the screen.

Significant planning must go into the use of laptops as learning tools and not simply as word processors.

London ran three buses for a three-year trial and is now planning to buy ten.

Scientists are planning to drill all the way through the planet's miles.

Stop subsidizing sprawl by changing the mortgage interest deduction and planning laws that spread cities out needlessly.

But with a little planning and ingenuity, you can turn your side yard into.

We want to be the place you go when you are planning a trip, buying a new suit, getting a haircut.

On the administrative side of the house, however, succession planning seems to be gaining a bit of traction.

The commission proposes to relax planning constraints on big new stores.

He urges planning to prepare the people, the economy and.

Japan has decades of planning experience and an established early warning system.

Watch for tips on planning the perfect party with these fabulous drink and appetizer pairings.

He emphasizes the importance of planning and often issues this challenge:.

The ideal of socialist planning is a giant, nation-sized firm.

The perfect resource for planning a trip with every generation of a family.

It is much cheaper to provide education and family planning resources than it is to provide food and water.

The couple decided to remodel the shed, and it became an exercise in preservation and space planning.

The project leader should be involved in all aspects of planning and producing the procedures manual.

Policymakers will spend the year planning exit strategies-ways to withdraw from the markets and companies they rushed to rescue.

To prepare for your adventure, you'll need to do some planning.

Balch recommends that forest managers use the framework to improve planning and zoning along the wildland-urban interface.

Are you planning to update an existing powder room, transform a full bath into a half, or carve out.

And they must juggle their planning with other academic responsibilities.

Short-term extensions create uncertainty about federal funding and make local transport planning difficult.

It's that time of the year when romance is in the air and people everywhere are planning where and when to plant the perfect kiss.

However, brutal honesty is better during situations such as emergency response and planning.

But, before you proceed consider these planning checklists for the best return on your dollars and your dreams.

Attempts to speed up planning are dividing communities-and generations.

Be steadfast about planning ahead for the time when you'll replace your soon-to-be outdated map.

City planning also took on new ideas, and developers began thinking in terms of convenience for apartment dwellers.

If you're planning a visit in summer, lazily catch the views from a rafting trip.

Large firms are often better at planning than small ones, and long-term strategy works best in a stable.

Months of planning and anticipation have finally winnowed to days.

Others say that the funding debate is hurting science's long-term planning process.

After two years of planning and extended weekend camping trips to the site, the couple, together with family and friends.

Both are being reformed, with extra cash for expensive technologies and powers to overrule local planning objections.

But unless you are planning on munching acorns as you pedal, you are well advised to bring some snacks for the road.

Family planning experts used to say that women only started having fewer children when they got educated or escaped poverty.

The project became an exercise in preservation and space planning.

Shifting people on to high-speed trains has needed both careful planning and political consensus.

Plant trees and incorporate the care of city green spaces as a key element in urban planning.

If you°re planning to do spur pruning, cut back each of the shoots you selected in the spring to two buds.

Most governments are already planning increases in the retirement age.

When planning your trip, my advice is to stop planning.

My understanding is that you are not planning to harvest the chickens for meat, only their eggs.

But the way it is planning to go about it is raising eyebrows in the industry.

If you're planning ahead for your spring garden, it's easy to grow seeds in pots.

It should also be a boon for workers planning their retirement.

The scrumptious recipes at the end of the book will get you pumped up and planning your new egg-centric diet for weeks to come.

She's planning to use the patch for something more loved.

Planning a menu in advance of planting the menu puts the cart before the horse.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.

a design or scheme of arrangement: an elaborate plan for seating guests.

a specific project or definite purpose: plans for the future.

Also called plan view. a drawing made to scale to represent the top view or a horizontal section of a structure or a machine, as a floor layout of a building.

a representation of a thing drawn on a plane, as a map or diagram: a plan of the dock area.

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(in perspective drawing) one of several planes in front of a represented object, and perpendicular to the line between the object and the eye.

a formal program for specified benefits, needs, etc.: a pension plan.

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verb (used with object)

to arrange a method or scheme beforehand for (any work, enterprise, or proceeding): to plan a new recreation center.

to make plans for: to plan one's vacation.

10.

to draw or make a diagram or layout of, as a building.

verb (used without object)

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to make plans: to plan ahead; to plan for one's retirement.

Origin:
1670–80; < French: ground, plan, groundwork, scheme, noun use of the adj.: flat, plane¹, learned borrowing of Latin plānus level (compare plain¹)

Related forms

plan·less, adjective

plan·less·ly, adverb

plan·less·ness, noun

mis·plan, verb, -planned, -plan·ning.

out·plan, verb (used with object), -planned, -plan·ning.

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o·ver·plan, verb, -planned, -plan·ning.

pre·plan, verb, -planned, -plan·ning.

re·plan, verb (used with object), -planned, -plan·ning.

un·der·plan, noun

un·der·plan, verb (used with object), -planned, -plan·ning.

un·plan, verb (used with object), -planned, -plan·ning.

well-planned, adjective

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Can be confused: plain, plan, plane (see synonym note at the current entry).

Synonyms
1. plot, formula, system. Plan, project, design, scheme imply a formulated method of doing something. Plan refers to any method of thinking out acts and purposes beforehand: What are your plans for today? A project is a proposed or tentative plan, often elaborate or extensive: an irrigation project. Design suggests art, dexterity, or craft (sometimes evil and selfish) in the elaboration or execution of a plan, and often tends to emphasize the purpose in view: a misunderstanding brought about by design. A scheme is apt to be either a speculative, possibly impracticable, plan, or a selfish or dishonest one: a scheme to swindle someone. 4. sketch, draft, diagram, chart. 8. design, devise, plot.

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Word Origin & History

plan

1678, "drawing, sketch, or diagram of any object," from Fr. plan "ground plan, map," lit. "plane surface" (1553), from L. planum "level or flat surface," n. use of adj. planus "level, flat" (see plane (1)). The notion is of "a drawing on a flat surface." Meaning "scheme of

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action, design" is first recorded 1706, possibly infl. by Fr. planter "to plant," from It. planta "ground plan." The verb is first recorded 1728. Planned economy is attested from 1931. Planned Parenthood (1942) formerly was Birth Control Federation of America. Phrase planned obsolescence is attested from 1966. Planner "book or device that enables one to plan" is attested from 1971.

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