Plan

Quick meaning: Plan is a noun meaning A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

Meaning

A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

More Meanings

1. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
2. A subscription to a service.
3. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
4. (transitive) To create a plan for.
5. (intransitive) To intend.
6. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
7. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.

Example Sentences

a phone plan

an Internet plan

The architect planned the building for the client.

Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans

Word Forms

• plans
• planning
• planned

Synonyms for plan

Depending on context, synonyms include blueprint, design, scheme, chart, diagram, map.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include design, program, project, programme, contrive, charting.

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