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plan
[ plan ]
SEE DEFINITION OF  plan
 nounscheme, design, way of doing things
 nounwritten description; diagram
 verbthink out; prepare in advance
 verbintend, mean
SYNONYMS FOR PLAN

 arrangement
 deal
 idea
 intention
 method
 policy
 procedure
 program
 project
 proposal
 strategy
 suggestion
 system
 treatment
 aim
 angle
 animus
 contrivance
 device
 disposition
 expedient
 gimmick
 intent
 layout
 machination
 meaning
 means
 orderliness
 outline
 pattern
 picture
 platform
 plot
 projection
 proposition
 purpose
 scenario
 stratagem
 tactics
 trick
 undertaking
 big picture
 course of action
 game plan
 ground plan

MOST RELEVANT
ANTONYMS FOR PLAN

 disorganization

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Your brother, in short, has given a plan that captivates us all.

The plan of this steam-navigation is now about ten years old.

But from the outset the plan was received with universal favor.

We respect you just as much, but not to plan things for the rest of us.

My plan was to reduce each man's ration of flower from 7lbs.

"That plan will work in two ways," said Mrs. Roberts, gleefully.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

She was rather staggered, however, when she found what Hester's plan for the intruders
was.

The youth pondered, and drew a plan amongst the rushes with the point of his staff.

This, however, is not the logical way in which to plan meals.

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RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR PLAN

action
nounsomething done

 activity
 agility
 alacrity
 alertness
 animation
 bag
 ballgame
 big idea
 bit
 business
 bustle
 commotion
 dash
 deal
 energy
 enterprise
 flurry
 force
 functioning
 game
 going
 happening
 haste
 hoopla
 hopper
 in the works
 industry
 life
 liveliness
 motion
 movement
 occupation
 operation
 plan
 power
 process
 proposition
 racket
 reaction
 response
 rush
 scene
 spirit
 stir
 stunt
 trip
 turmoil
 vigor
 vim
 vitality
 vivacity

agenda
nounlist of things to do

 calendar
 card
 diary
 docket
 lineup
 plan
 program
 schedule
 timetable

agendas
 nounlist of things to do

 calendar
 card
 diary
 docket
 lineup
 plan
 program
 schedule
 timetable

aim
verbpoint or direct at a goal

 address
 angle
 aspire
 attempt
 cast
 concentrate
 contemplate
 covet
 design
 direct
 endeavor
 essay
 fix
 focus
 intend
 level
 mean
 plan
 propose
 purpose
 set one's sights on
 sight
 slant
 steer
 strive
 target
 train
 try
 want
 wish
 zero in on
 zoom in

aim
noungoal

 ambition
 aspiration
 course
 desideratum
 design
 desire
 direction
 end
 intent
 intention
 mark
 object
 objective
 plan
 purpose
 scheme
 target
 where one is heading
 wish

aiming
verbpoint or direct at a goal

 address
 angle
 aspire
 attempt
 cast
 concentrate
 contemplate
 covet
 design
 direct
 endeavor
 essay
 fix
 focus
 intend
 level
 mean
 plan
 propose
 purpose
 set one's sights on
 sight
 slant
 steer
 strive
 target
 train
 try
 want
 wish
 zero in on
 zoom in

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