transcription, транскрипция: [ plæn ]
( plans, planning, planned)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A plan is a method of achieving something that you have worked out in detail beforehand.
The three leaders had worked out a peace plan...
...a detailed plan of action for restructuring the group...
He maintains that everything is going according to plan.
N-COUNT : usu with supp , also according to N
2.
If you plan what you are going to do, you decide in detail what you are going to do, and you intend to do it.
If you plan what you’re going to eat, you reduce your chances of overeating...
He planned to leave Baghdad on Monday...
It would be difficult for schools to plan for the future...
I had been planning a trip to the West Coast...
A planned demonstration has been called off by its organisers.
VERB : V wh , V to-inf , V for n , V n , V-ed
3.
If you have plans , you are intending to do a particular thing.
‘I’m sorry,’ she said. ‘I have plans for tonight.’
N-PLURAL : usu with supp , oft N for n / -ing , N to-inf
4.
When you plan something that you are going to make, build, or create, you decide what the main parts of it will be and do a drawing of how it should be made.
We are planning a new kitchen.
VERB : V n
5.
A plan of something that is going to be built or made is a detailed diagram or drawing of it.
...when you have drawn a plan of the garden.
N-COUNT : oft N of/for n
6.
see also planning