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plural plans
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. examples
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal. quotations examples
Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans
1980, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”, in Double Fantasy
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. examples
A method; a way of procedure; a custom. quotations examples
The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.
1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave
A subscription to a service. examples
third-person singular simple present plans, present participle planning, simple past and past participle planned
(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.). examples
(transitive) To create a plan for. examples
(intransitive) To intend. quotations examples
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
(intransitive) To make a plan. examples