plan
noun
[ plan ]
• a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.
• "the UN peace plan"
Similar:
scheme,
plan of action,
idea,
master plan,
game plan,
proposal,
proposition,
ploy,
suggestion,
project,
programme,
system,
method,
procedure,
strategy,
stratagem,
formula,
recipe,
scenario,
arrangement,
schedule,
agenda,
way,
means,
measure,
tactic,
tack,
plot,
device,
manoeuvre,
ruse,
shift,
• an intention or decision about what one is going to do.
• "I have no plans to retire"
Similar:
intention,
aim,
idea,
intent,
objective,
object,
goal,
target,
hope,
aspiration,
ambition,
• a detailed map or diagram.
• "a street plan"
plan
verb
• decide on and make arrangements for in advance.
• "they were planning a trip to Egypt"
Similar:
organize,
arrange,
work out,
think out,
design,
line up,
outline,
sketch out,
map out,
chalk out,
draft,
prepare,
schedule,
programme,
formulate,
frame,
project,
develop,
set up,
fix up,
shape,
build,
devise,
concoct,
contrive,
plot,
scheme,
cook up,
hatch,
brew,
mastermind,
orchestrate,
choreograph,
slate,
excogitate,
intend,
make plans,
aim,
propose,
mean,
be resolved,
have in mind,
hope,
want,
wish,
desire,
contemplate,
envisage,
foresee,
envision,
expect,
purpose,
• design or make a plan of (something to be made or built).
• "she had planned the garden from scratch"
Similar:
design,
draw up a plan of,
make a drawing of,
draw up a layout of,
sketch out,
make a map of,
map out,
make a representation of,
plat,
Origin:
late 17th century: from French, from earlier plant ‘ground plan, plane surface’, influenced in sense by Italian pianta ‘plan of building’. Compare with plant.
