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plan

[plan]

noun, verb, planned, plan⋅ning.

–noun

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

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

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

4.	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.

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

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

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

–verb (used with object)

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

9.	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)

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

Origin:
1670–80; < F: ground, plan, groundwork, scheme, n. use of the adj.: flat, plane ¹ , learned borrowing of L plānus level (cf. plain ¹ )

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