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/ˈplæŋk/ · noun
A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick..
Germanization was a central plank of German conservative thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries.
When Mr. Dole had been asked at the Republican convention about the same immigration amendment—one of the more conservative and sensitive planks—he did not oppose it, but said he would have to think long and hard before supporting it.
In the 1970s, a group of ideologically inspired economists captured the ears and minds of politicians. The central plank of their ‘neo-liberal’ model was that growth and development depended on market competitiveness; […]
The party, whose official name (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) translates as Alliance '90/The Greens, grew out of an assortment of social protest movements of the 1980s that eventually unified. Their supporters marched for everything from ending nuclear power to enacting gay rights — while maintaining the key plank of environmental protection.
His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.
to plank a floor or a ship
Plank'd with pine.
Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Use plank when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Plank means A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick..
Common synonyms include addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Germanization was a central plank of German conservative thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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