Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Planning is the process of deciding in detail how to do something before you actually start to do it.
The trip needs careful ~...
The new system is still in the ~ stages.
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see also family ~
2.
Planning is control by the local government of the way that land is used in an area and of what new buildings are built there.
...a masterpiece of 18th-century town ~...
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