Designer or strategist

Usage examples of planner.

The planners had deliberately packed the recruits tightly together this way to simulate the close quarters that would exist aboard the six Dreadnaughts once Outbound Flight set off on its mission.

The protostar, which project planners had dubbed Sanctuary, was a cloud of gas and dust whose central regions glowed with dull red light.

Up to this time I had been the planner of the enterprise, but now that the moment had come when all would depend upon able and earnest speechifying, I felt at once the immense superiority of my gallant friend, and gladly left to him the whole conduct of this discussion.

In fact, military planners called Chandra, a supermassive black hole, the Prime Radiant of the Xeelee.

There were urban planners there, too, from places like Accra and Buenos Aires, and from small towns and villages carved out of the most unlikely geographies.

Taras evenly spaced on manicured quarter-acre lots, was so pristine its planners had succumbed to anglophilia and named the subdivision Nottingham Forest.

The Washington planners are trying to be helpful in this, and there are new programs for the centralized organization of science all over the place, especially in the biomedical field.

There is little point in posing brainteasers to a wedding planner, surgeon, taxi driver, or counterperson at Starbucks.

His life meant more as a pilot and squadron commander than it would as a deskbound planner.

CENTCOM planners had created a matrix, which Franks dubbed his grand strategy.

Critical mass was a shiny, polished concept from the gray halls of the universities and space agencies on Earth, but it had its dark side-a side discussed only in hushed conversations among the planners who hung out during late hours in what passed for dim bars in Mars City: they would have to reach critical mass before they could survive a catastrophic shutdown of the supply lines from Earth-a shutdown that could happen any day because of an economic collapse Earthside, a spacecraft disaster at Crystal City or Phobos, or worse.

Program planners have set a goal of collecting information, confirming identity, providing information about foreign nationals throughout the entire immigration system, and ultimately enabling each point in the system to assess the lawfulness of travel and any security risks.

Instead he was a theorist, a methodical planner whose exploits rivaled those of Richard Sorge, the master Soviet operative against Japan in the Second World War.

It was only then that Zephyr realized - with her sketchy knowledge of the roots of the Greek-based Citizen Classnames - that of course Strategos was a blend-word, the old name for a general, now carrying the new weight of later derivations: strategic adviser, battle tactician, master planner.

At some point-or another, urban planners had tried any number of strategies to decentralize the business district, to stagger work hours, to facilitate telecommuting none to any lasting effect.