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plan

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

plan

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a controversial plan/proposal/policy

▪ the controversial plan to build a new airport

a development programme/plan/project

▪ the United Nations Development Programme

a family planning clinic (=giving advice about how to prevent pregnancy)

▪ There are family planning clinics all over the country.

a flight plan (=the planned route of an aircraft)

▪ For some reason the pilot diverged from the flight plan.

a peace plan

▪ The leadership rejected the peace plan.

a plan of action

▪ The General outlined his plan of action for the campaign.

▪ Environmental groups have put forward an action plan.

a planning application (=an official request for permission to build something)

▪ We have lodged a planning application for a housing development on the site.

a planning committeeBritish English (= one that considers requests to build new buildings)

▪ Several concerns were raised at the planning committee.

a reduction plan/programme/scheme

▪ The terms of the treaty call for a three-phase troop reduction programme.

a rescue plan/package (=plan to save a company, economy etc that is in trouble)

▪ They drew up a rescue plan that involved restructuring the firm.

agree a price/plan/strategy etc

▪ We agreed a new four-year contract.

an escape plan

▪ You should have an escape plan in the event of a fire.

an expansion plan

▪ The city’s ambitious expansion plans will require major investment.

announce a decision/intention/plan

▪ The government has announced plans to create 10,000 new jobs.

austerity programme/plan/package

▪ a tough new austerity programme

business plan

carefully planned/chosen/controlled etc

▪ carefully chosen words

city planning

contingency plan

▪ a contingency plan

corporate planning/strategy (=the activity of planning what a big company needs to do to succeed)

▪ Roche is the man in charge of corporate planning.

devise a plan/scheme

▪ Together they devised a clever plan to escape.

discuss a plan/idea

▪ It’s a good idea to discuss your plans with your parents.

draw up a plan/scheme

▪ Local authorities have drawn up new plans for waste disposal.

drop a plan

▪ The company has dropped its plan to build a hotel on the site.

family planning

▪ a family planning clinic

floor plan

formulate a policy/plan/strategy etc

▪ He formulated Labour Party education policy in 1922.

game plan

▪ He has his game plan all worked out.

grandiose scheme/plan/idea etc

▪ grandiose schemes of urban renewal

ground plan

▪ documents which formed the ground plan for the welfare state

implement a policy/plan/decision etc

▪ We have decided to implement the committee’s recommendations in full.

installment plan

long-range planning/plan/forecast etc

▪ a long-range weather forecast

▪ the long-range goal of the project

long-range planning/plan/forecast etc

▪ a long-range weather forecast

▪ the long-range goal of the project

long-term plan/strategy/solution

master plan

▪ The job losses were part of a master plan aimed at transforming the structure of the company.

moves/plans/changes afoot

▪ There were plans afoot for a second attack.

pension plan

plan a menu (=decide what foods will be served)

▪ Erika began planning a menu for the dinner party.

plan ahead (=plan for the future)

▪ Unless we plan ahead we are going to be in a mess.

plan an escape

▪ We planned our escape carefully and waited for just the right moment.

plan for the future (also make plans for the future) (= think carefully about the future and decide what you are going to do )

▪ As soon as she knew she was pregnant, she started to plan for the future.

plan your route

▪ We studied the map and planned our route.

plan/develop/design a curriculum

▪ Fifty academics have been involved in developing the new school curriculum.

planned obsolescence

planned/timed/arranged to coincide

▪ The show is timed to coincide with the launch of a new book.

planning approval (=official approval needed before building something)

▪ The construction work will be subject to planning approval.

planning consentBritish English (= consent to build a new building or change an old one)

▪ You will need to apply for planning consent.

planning permission (=official permission to build a new building or change an existing one )

▪ The bank has applied for planning permission to redevelop a 1¼-acre site.

planning permission

planning regulations (=relating to what buildings can be built in an area)

▪ The house must be demolished because it does not conform to planning regulations.

planning restrictions (=legal restrictions on what buildings can be built somewhere)

▪ There are government proposals to relax planning restrictions on green belt areas around cities.

plan/plot a coup

▪ They were arrested and accused of plotting a coup against the government.

Plans...shelved

▪ Plans to reopen the school have been shelved.

plan/work sth out in detail

▪ I haven't worked our trip out in detail yet.

proceeding according to plan

▪ Work is proceeding according to plan.

put forward a plan/scheme

▪ Both parties have put forward plans for political reform.

retirement plan

sb’s hopes/fears/plans for the future

▪ What are your hopes for the future?

seating plan/arrangements

▪ the seating plan for the wedding dinner

strategic planning

▪ strategic planning meetings

the best-laid plans (=plans that have been made carefully)

▪ Bad weather can upset even the best-laid travel plans.

town planning

vacation plans (=an idea about what you want to do on your vacation)

▪ Do you have any vacation plans this summer?

went according to plan

▪ Everything went according to plan, and we arrived on time.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

economic

▪ The privatization of up to 40 state-owned companies was at the centre of the governments economic recovery plan.

▪ Dole is expected to emphasize his economic plan, which calls for sweeping tax cuts as well as balancing the budget.

▪ No details had yet been published of an economic recovery plan which the government had announced in January.

▪ Speculation about Kemp has been growing, particularly since Dole announced an economic plan that embraced tax cuts long advocated by Kemp.

▪ To work, any Soviet economic plan must do two things.

▪ And what economic plan would be without its executive summary?

▪ He was in the Oval Office, on the second day of trying to sell his economic plan.

future

▪ Money to help pay for ambitious future plans was at least one motive for seeking publication.

▪ I can then produce a programme that provides a framework to meet your future financial plans using Allied Dunbar products.

▪ If he had future plans, they were shattered by a stroke.

▪ This is a time of tension when the stakes may be high and a future plan hangs by a thread.

▪ The money will be used to top up its land bank crucial to future house building plans from 15,000 plots to 20,000.

▪ In the interview they asked me about my future plans.

▪ Mr Lekszton's future plans include a private television station and an airline.

▪ Decision-making is often about future plans and events, yet nobody knows with certainty what will happen in the future.

game

▪ When he needed to vary his game plan Hamed was unable to.

▪ That took them out of the game plan, too.

▪ The previous commissioner spent months with us, analysing our game plans and marketing strategy.

▪ Member companies spent most of the first year trying to hammer out a mission and a game plan.

▪ Whether he can establish a solid relationship with him, likes his attitude-and if that player fits his game plan.

▪ The Raiders' game plan revealed astonishing flexibility.

▪ As the staff looks toward the future, its game plan is to provide quality care.

▪ Rison was conspicuously absent from much of the Jaguars' game plan.

local

▪ The local plan will replace the existing local plans for Midlothian District.

▪ As a result, controversial local plans tend to attract numerous objections which are then tested at a local inquiry.

▪ When determining planning applications planning authorities are required to have regard to structure and local plans.

▪ These will include: Does the scheme comply with the policies contained in its local plan?

new

▪ The new plan limits programme management costs to 20 percent.

▪ A new plan was taking shape.

▪ Many people launch themselves into their new plans with no preparation at all.

▪ But the medical profession is not the only group targeted by the new seven-page plan.

▪ Clare wondered suspiciously why this sensationally good-looking man seemed not to have any New Year's plans.

▪ Buyouts are less attractive to workers under the new plan.

▪ A new plan is being considered.

▪ The NOCs also test new technologies and plan for their deployment.

original

▪ In insisting that no changes had been made to the original plan, his team was being economical with the truth.

▪ In addition, the original plan called for the demolition of structures found beyond repair and the relocation of displaced homeowners.

▪ Its original plan was to unload the problem on to the electricity generators.

▪ Hence, with some misgivings, the original plan was adhered to. 3.

▪ Better to abide by the original plan.

▪ This would be expensive and had not been allowed for in the original plans and bids.

▪ In the original battle plans, which were to be strictly adhered to, ten minutes were allocated for the raid.

▪ After two years, the Gypsy Moth Commission decided to go back to a version of their original plan.

strategic

▪ When this happens, strategic plans not only waste enormous time and money, they can become actual barriers to innovation.

▪ Environmental audit General property audit - collates information on a building or property portfolio in order to establish a long-term strategic plan.

▪ About three weeks ago, Teran released a four-year strategic plan to improve public safety throughout Baja California.

▪ But every governing body is expected to produce a strategic plan, delineating how it will succeed.

▪ These councils would assess local needs, contribute to local service plans within the overall strategic plan and monitor local service provision.

▪ But the commanders had their orders and a strategic plan to carry out, and they stood firm.

■ NOUN

action

▪ A timescale indicator and action plan for achievement should also be agreed.

▪ Note from the action plan that both the nurse and the nutritionist perform height, weight, and skinfold measurements.

▪ The report should constitute an action plan.

▪ I proceeded to come up with an affirmative action plan for the company that would work.

▪ Definition of priorities empowers the next stage - an action plan.

▪ Students will work towards fixed targets regarding the above, but will also negotiate individual action plans.

▪ It produced a 13-point action plan to reduce the risk of marine pollution.

▪ The action plan will be linked to a study of the commuting habits of nearly 15,000 council employees.

business

▪ Highly confidential and sensitive matters - such as business plans, projections or formulae - which must not be used.

▪ Within eighteen months, they had firmed up a business plan, and Liz said good-bye to her migraines.

▪ Information systems should be integrated with the business plan at all three layers of the management hierarchy.

▪ What will a business plan for the Metro section look like?

▪ Likewise a business plan should be developed in order to chart the proposed progress.

▪ Never forget that profit is the goal of a good business plan.

▪ How many business plans down the road will it be before his good intentions are eroded or outmaneuvered?

care

▪ As part of the care plan.

▪ Investor-owned managed care plans routinely take 20 percent to 30 percent of premium dollars off the top for profit and administration.

▪ This is particularly important when discussing personal matters, such as some one's care plan.

▪ The hospital continues to struggle to correctly bill insurance providers and state and federal indigent health care plans.

▪ Communication within the caring team, and the formation of nursing care plans, ensures continuity of patient care.

▪ The products and the care plans they produce are more in-depth.

▪ They must also show their HIV/AIDS services are fully integrated into their community care plans.

▪ Her health care plan drew fire.

contingency

▪ The three A's must be making some contingency plans.

▪ Anticipating the possibility of such a crisis, G Group several months earlier had drawn up a contingency plan.

▪ Supt Peter Durham from Newcastle city centre will address staff on how contingency plans can be properly arranged for Newcastle.

▪ Next, specific action may be agreed upon that is realistic and measurable with perhaps a contingency plan lined up too.

▪ The agents are intelligent because they have contingency plans of action.

▪ If you perceive this could be a problem perhaps the two of you could discuss a contingency plan to deal with this.

▪ City officials have implemented what they call Phase I of a contingency plan aimed at bringing pollution levels down.

development

▪ Academic planning Contributions to a Polytechnic development plan.

▪ Since 1971 development plans have included specific population targets.

▪ The excavation of the Viking site at York was so important, though, that the development plans were changed.

▪ The development plan is only one of the material considerations, and its policies and assumptions may be out of date.

▪ The vote means that the project will be included in the current 10-year development plan.

▪ Individuals will be responsible for their own personal development plans which will be measured against agreed standards of business performance.

▪ He was appointed by Touche Ross to reorganise the hotel, conference and leisure complex and implement a structured business development plan.

▪ These are not targets to be met and should not be the basis or a starting point for development plan policies.

master

▪ Not a secret master plan on the part of the Emperor - but a dagger aimed at his heart?

▪ The tentative concepts of the five finalists in a master plan design competition will go on view for the first time.

▪ And so they moved, with no master plan in mind, first to their small flat in Brussels.

▪ The master plan will determine what kind of fees users will be charged for such amenities.

▪ One final comment before you start writing out your master plan for reaching running goals: Use a pencil.

▪ The challenge Chapter 4 will provide you with an opportunity to create a master plan from what you have learned.

▪ It held what was in essence a master plan for murder, said Mr Stuart-Moore.

▪ The master plan was scheduled to be implemented in 1975.

peace

▪ No eighteenth-century peace plan had the slightest chance of being put into practice.

▪ The United States is not offering its own peace plan, an official said.

▪ While the government-in-exile headed by Sawyer proposed to send representatives to Monrovia to discuss its peace plan, the military conflict continued.

▪ In fact the only new development is that the implementation of the peace plan has been brought to a standstill.

▪ But to patch things up the friends need to agree on a peace plan.

pension

▪ One of the attractions of executive pension plans is their potential flexibility.

▪ Today, the pension plan for the owner and ten office workers is in serious trouble.

▪ Our reader was invited to make his annual contribution to his Equitable Life pension plan.

▪ Once you have a pension plan, be sure to use a pension plan expert to help you keep your plan qualified.

▪ More than 4.6m people have contracted out of the state scheme into personal pension plans since their introduction in 1986.

▪ From some angles, it looks to be a pension plan offering monthly retirement benefits commensurate with contributions.

▪ The corner-stone of your strategy should be a pension plan - because of the tremendous financial advantages pension plans enjoy.

▪ So there are no pat answers, and usually you need a pension plan expert to recommend a plan for you.

retirement

▪ They are less interested in investment and retirement plans and are less well positioned to attract meaningful new clients than older lawyers.

▪ He has done so by manipulating contributions to certain government retirement plans.

▪ Do retirement plan administrators get crazy?

▪ Employers who establish retirement plans must be cautious about engaging in transactions with their plans.

▪ If neither you nor your spouse is covered by an employer retirement plan, you may deduct your entire contribution.

▪ Their restaurant is their retirement plan.

▪ They were among those who in 1981 took a $ 40, 000 cash buyout to switch to a less-generous retirement plan.

▪ Was the $ 1. 2 trillion in mutual fund retirement plans endangered by the market correction?

■ VERB

agree

▪ Within two weeks the participants were able to agree upon a draft plan.

▪ They have kept the government shut to pressure the president to agree to a seven-year plan to balance the federal budget.

▪ She acquiesced, agreeing to his plan for a meeting with Joan in the palace rose-garden.

▪ However, Rodman said the state only agreed to the clean-up plan to avoid further delays.

▪ The Commander-in-Chief agreed to the plan and also authorized Stirling to recruit a further six officers and up to forty men.

▪ Morrison Knudsen and lenders agree on a plan to avoid a cash shortage.

▪ But to patch things up the friends need to agree on a peace plan.

▪ Talks aimed at agreeing on a plan to balance the budget within seven years are still taking place.

announce

▪ Meanwhile, Barclays has announced plans to more than double its network of wipe-through machines.

▪ Westinghouse shares had remained stagnant even after the company announced its plans to sell the electronics business.

▪ They announced plans for its complete redevelopment and applied for a certificate of immunity of listing.

▪ It also announced plans to ease the regulatory burden on unions, and transfer their supervision to the Financial Services Authority.

▪ Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Senate aviation subcommittee who announced the plan at a news conference.

approve

▪ Sedgefield District Council's development committee have approved the plan.

▪ The Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors must approve the plan before a building permit is issued.

▪ Not that she approved of his plans.

▪ The bishops, whose annual spring meeting concluded Saturday, also approved a plan for ministering to young people.

▪ Best to have the buyer sign it, however, to ensure that he or she really does approve the plan.

▪ Now that supervisors also have approved it, the plan encompasses all land in the county.

▪ I hope Prince Charles approves the plans before a brick is laid!

▪ We approve his plan, and he starts up with your money.

build

▪ It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy.

▪ Was it a plan to build a last secure bunker in the Lena Valley if Leningrad and Moscow fell to the blitzkrieg?

▪ The transport committee yesterday approved plans to build another boat.

▪ As for the partners in her practice, they had to agree to a more gradual plan for building the practice.

▪ A public announcement of the plan to build a Hinkley C power station was made a month later.

▪ Today, there are four, with plans to build an additional one in Chandler.

▪ The Irvine-based concern had approached Poway and Santee officials about selling the parcel after dropping plans to build 65 luxury homes there.

change

▪ They give care according to the plan specified by the primary nurse and will usually only change that plan in an emergency.

▪ Overnight, the fortunes of big companies changed and any plans for the future had to be reconsidered.

▪ That's why, every year, thousands of people have to change their plans.

▪ Response was so small, however, that she changed her plan.

▪ No logical reason, he wrote, but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun.

▪ But there are others who vehemently oppose changing the general plan designation in either area.

▪ Your welcome may change my plans.

▪ No one can change their retirement plans quickly.

develop

▪ Identifying the Company Needs Before choosing an appropriate source of finance, the company should first develop an appropriate business plan.

▪ Three teams of contractors were selected to develop plans.

▪ To develop plans successfully agencies will need to work closely with local providers and community representatives.

▪ Dream your own dream! Develop a plan to accomplish that dream and work hard to complete it!

▪ Gradually, Power and his colleagues developed a plan to turn the 70 programs into a coherent Human Investment System.

▪ Then develop a plan to acquire those skills.

▪ But Knight developed a unique business plan to achieve his mission.

▪ As the infant develops, the parents gain much by assisting with the observations and helping the nurse develop the care plan.

discuss

▪ The group will discuss the plans on 5 November.

▪ Officials with the AFL-CIO were hesitant to discuss the administration plan because they said they had not seen details of the proposal.

▪ Volunteers will hold a meeting this weekend to discuss fund-raising plans for the Christmas period.

▪ He refuses to discuss any plans beyond that.

▪ As Joe and Biddy became a little more cheerful, discussing my possible plans for the future, I became more miserable.

▪ If this is the case do not discuss your plans with them.

▪ We discussed our plans for the living museum and theme park and told her about the oak tree.

▪ We must discuss the plan with the president.

draw

▪ So the most helpful thing to do before you start shopping is to draw up a scale plan of the room.

▪ Anticipating the possibility of such a crisis, G Group several months earlier had drawn up a contingency plan.

▪ It will draw up these plans in the light of national policies and local priorities and resources.

▪ The draftsman no longer draws his plans.

▪ The district councils being usually responsible for drawing up detailed local plans in accordance with policies defined in the structure plans.

▪ He set about drawing up a rescue plan amid a political storm that resulted in the resignation of two cabinet ministers.

▪ Large corporations draw up ground plans for restaurants and reduce everything down to a level of mediocrity.

▪ Negotiations were started to purchase the site, and the London architects Spalding and Spalding were commissioned to draw up the plans.

formulate

▪ The results will be used to formulate development plans.

▪ All over Langley and Miami they were still formulating plans to hit Fidel.

▪ In November 1808 ten of her friends met in London to formulate a rescue plan.

▪ They formulate detailed plans for managing both the quantitative and the qualitative costs they are bound to incur.

▪ Accept that and formulate an organised plan of action and you're nearly there!

▪ When the tin price collapsed, the miners formulated a plan to keep the mines open under their control with reduced costs.

▪ Subsequent treatment After the initial period of assessment and support it should be possible to formulate a treatment plan.

▪ In bed, in the dark, she formulated her plans.

implement

▪ Twenty-two others are being implemented, and plans are in hand for a further nine.

▪ These infectious disease problems demonstrate the urgency for expeditiously implementing this plan.

▪ Friction embraces resistance or resentment on the part of key people who have to implement the plan.

▪ Fortunately, I received a reprieve because my boss had a nervous breakdown before he could implement his plan.

▪ Step 11 Draw up and then implement your plan for bringing about change.

▪ But the Senate bill designed to implement the plan contains some consumer-friendly changes that could kill it instead.

▪ This new status may enable the museums to get themselves out of their present crisis situation and implement some plans.

lay

▪ We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time.

▪ We immediately began laying plans for subsequent operations to achieve what we had been unable to accomplish at Pearl Harbor.

▪ The two countries were laying plans for a jointly operated early-warning centre that might help this.

▪ We consult an architect, laying our current floor plan before her and describing our needs.

▪ Taking care to avoid certain members of his household ... So the rational mind lays its rational plans.

▪ Undaunted, Galvin laid out a ten-year plan to make Motorola the leader in the industry.

▪ Meanwhile, the moment there was a hint of spring in the air, she began to lay her plans.

▪ We then laid plans for the next voyage.

make

▪ Humanity is already making plans for its escape.

▪ No change, however, was made in the operational plan.

▪ The panic receded as she forced herself to make practical plans.

▪ He made plans to welcome religious varieties, whereas elsewhere authorities suppressed or discouraged them.

▪ He made so many plans for this wedding.

▪ Spitzer said he was interested, met with parents of the band members and began making some plans.

▪ They'd made their plans for escape.

▪ Commander Byrd had made their flight plan.

prepare

▪ He is currently preparing a plan to unlock more working capital by the New Year.

▪ And the agency hired by the state to prepare such a plan has refused Knapman as a client.

▪ Conveyancers are not trained or expected to prepare original plans: it is the duty of the client to supply these.

▪ Unfriendly takeovers represent a constant threat to underperforming companies with ill prepared strategic plans.

▪ Then they had a draughtsman prepare the plans and sub-contracted the building.

▪ Do not, for example, equate time spent preparing plans with impact.

▪ Competition for employees will increase and clearly many major industries are preparing their plans to ensure that they remain competitive.

▪ Carter ordered the Pentagon to prepare a contingency plan for military action to rescue the hostages.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

advance planning/warning/booking etc

▪ For course details details and advance booking forms contact:.

▪ However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.

▪ If we could list those we'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur.

▪ It will also repay advance bookings.

▪ Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.

▪ Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.

▪ The most obvious features are the tall watchtowers scattered across the Silk Road to provide advance warning of Xiongnu attack.

bring forward legislation/plans/policies etc

▪ Following assessment of the responses to our discussion paper, we will bring forward legislation to achieve this.

▪ Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke wants to bring forward plans to change the law in the new year.

▪ It will bring forward legislation in the coming parliamentary session to introduce student loans, partially replacing grants, from autumn 1990.

buy off-plan

disappoint sb's hopes/expectations/plans

forward planning/thinking

▪ A bit of forward planning would have ensured a sum was put aside in the budget.

▪ A little bit of forward thinking years ago has put the Eagles in terrific position now.

▪ But he does want to stimulate constructive forward thinking.

▪ Findings relate to expenditure, degree of forward planning, objectives, workforce attitudes, management awareness and use of consultancies.

▪ His introduction to the art of place-kicking, however, was hardly a result of deep forward planning.

▪ In each of the schools, the library was clearly still high on the agenda for forward planning and review.

▪ It is at this point that proper forward planning and the use of the time log become of crucial importance.

▪ The message which emerges is clearly one of forward planning to avoid any undesirable over-involvement in management decisions.

hatch a plot/plan/deal etc

have big ideas/plans

▪ Waller has big plans for her retirement.

▪ I have big plans for Selina.

▪ They have big plans for their life together.

lay plans/a trap etc

▪ And the speaker may be totally unaware of laying a trap.

▪ Clare wouldn't put it past Sam to use a rat to lay a trap for her.

punch holes in sb's argument/idea/plans etc

short-range plan/goal/forecast etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Plan A obviously wasn't going to work, so we had to resort to plan B.

▪ After weeks of planning, the big day finally arrived.

▪ By January, many people are already making plans for their summer holidays.

▪ Everything went according to plan, and we all crossed the river safely.

▪ Her plan is to finish her degree and then go and teach in Japan.

▪ I have to organize a seating plan for the dinner.

▪ Increasing traffic congestion is a major influence on town planning.

▪ NASA has announced plans for a new space mission to Mars.

▪ Originally, the plan was to meet at Dave's house, but he's still not home.

▪ The school has plans to build a computer centre.

▪ the state's highway improvement plan

▪ There was an airline strike in India, and all our plans fell through at the last minute.

▪ You can't get a loan to start a new company if you don't have a good business plan.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ But when new owners took it over, they dropped the plan.

▪ Each executive then presented plans and budgets for their respective departments.

▪ In the first year of the plan, the government will pay 30 percent of their monthly payments.

▪ Instead they looked at the physical models of the new plant or engineering drawings or plans.

▪ It is only within the parameters of such an overall plan that a valid science and technology policy can be articulated.

▪ No work plan is infallible and changes may be necessary.

▪ The bitter irony was that the whole plan had been her idea right from the start.

▪ There are thousands of victims of those home income equity plans.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

ahead

▪ Order, order Always plan ahead to save time and unnecessary effort.

▪ Plan ahead and check everything you have planned.

▪ He knows how to handle situations and can plan ahead for things.

▪ Life was like wei chi in that respect; the master chose to play a waiting game, to plan ahead.

▪ For those willing to plan ahead however, this is nothing to lament.

▪ As with all questions affecting retirement, it is sensible if possible to plan ahead.

▪ Indeed, language is all about constructing unique sequences, and so is planning ahead for tomorrow.

already

▪ Richmond said McHale was already planning his side for the next campaign.

▪ Didja hear Judith is already planning a sequel?

▪ It already plans to build a $ 3 billion chip plant near Richmond, Virginia, to make PowerPC microprocessors.

▪ There are already plans to make the £26,000 jingle into a hit single and show the ad in cinemas.

▪ Dole may receive some help from the national Republican Party, which is already planning to run ads criticizing Clinton administration policies.

▪ The Sister Superior at Bartestree says the nuns were already planning to sell up.

▪ When news broke, he seemed to have already planned his response.

also

▪ There are also plans to log 57,500 hectares of ancient forest, containing trees of up to 600 years old.

▪ He also plans to offset Forbes' popular flat-tax plan with his own proposal: a 16 percent flat rate.

▪ Members are also planning to sell badges of its bee logo to boost funds.

▪ The company also plans to triple its office space next month in a move from Sunnyvale to Palo Alto.

▪ They are also planning to raise tax rates on higher incomes.

▪ He also planned to recommend not one, but three solid pastoral candidates of whom the cardinal could take his pick.

▪ There are also plans to take pupils on outings to Wimbledon and Ascot, and there will be nights at the opera.

▪ Amgen also plans to buy back between $ 350 million to $ 450 million of stock in 1996.

carefully

▪ The whole life span of a record, including its creation needs to be planned carefully.

▪ There simply is no replacement for a rigorous, carefully planned sequence of academic course work.

▪ He planned carefully so that there was always time and no panic.

▪ As we saw in Chapter 7, a growing firm must plan carefully to finance its growth.

▪ The work should be planned carefully, however, to ensure that the pupils are getting something out of it as well.

▪ He carefully planned his exit from corporate life.

▪ All reports should be carefully planned, so you should first examine source material.

▪ However, the second sowing must be carefully planned.

■ NOUN

action

▪ The truth is that not a single one of the official groups organising protests is planning violent action.

▪ Neither understanding nor desire nor planning nor action come with-out effort.

▪ Teachers who for years had planned in terms of appropriate actions could not overnight apply their minds to appropriate meanings as well.

▪ Editing tables requires some planning and careful action.

▪ He is is now planning legal action to get compensation.

▪ He also was closely involved in planning the action.

▪ Earlier, Selby's brother Jon expressed fears that the authorities were planning military action.

▪ It aids the user in planning and conceptualizing an action oriented or planning activity.

advance

▪ But it is also useful to plan formal dissemination in advance.

▪ Everything he did was planned in advance.

▪ When you want to move somewhere you plan it in advance, you prepare yourself for the change.

▪ Unlike child care considerations, which often can be planned months in advance, eldercare issues often occur without warning.

▪ It concluded that suspicion existed that the action had been planned in advance and was directed by two commands with different instructions.

▪ Special events can be planned well in advance, and the game itself becomes more of a spectacle.

▪ To avoid sitting in front of a blank piece of card and wondering what to do, you should plan your design in advance.

▪ I want you to plan that day in advance.

city

▪ This was considered to be the ideal layout and was followed where a new city was planned.

▪ Model cities stressed local planning flexibility and the coordination of federal grant programs.

▪ For years, annexation has been the primary means by which city officials planned for growth.

▪ The city is planning to talk with local commercial brokers about what can be done to improve the business environment.

▪ The city plans to build a new $ 60 million dispatch center, scheduled to open by 1999.

▪ The city plans a huge grand opening party, including free skating and soccer, food and professional demonstrations.

▪ But this year the city is again planning an assault on that unconscionable pattern with its tree recycling program.

▪ A series of meetings with the city planning authorities culminated in discussions during the spring and summer of 1986.

company

▪ Together, these companies plan to recruit well over 50, 000 workers during 1996&038;.

▪ The company also plans to triple its office space next month in a move from Sunnyvale to Palo Alto.

▪ The company also plans to improve its debt to capital ratio further, to 0.5.

▪ The company is also planning to expand the life of the existing Magnox reactors by another 10 years.

▪ In December, Mr Julian says, many companies were planning longer-than-normal down time during the holidays.

▪ But the company planning the takeover has said its determined to fight on, and has extended its deadline for shareholders.

▪ The company plans to introduce an electric pickup in 1998.

event

▪ The hospice is planning a major fund-raising event for June.

▪ The organisers have apologised to all those who had planned to attend the event.

▪ After the initial excitement of announcing the engagement and setting a date, planning the event begins.

▪ The social worker discussed with Enid the possibility of planning such events into her week.

▪ Further details will be sent out in due course but please lodge your interest early to help them plan the event.

▪ Daybook items are listings of planned daily events.

family

▪ They had even heard that Angel's family were planning for him to marry a neighbour's daughter.

▪ Audio family conferences are planned weekly.

▪ Let us suppose the Smith family have planned a picnic in the country in a few days time.

▪ Most researchers doubt that there has ever been a strong direct correlation between Church policy and individual family planning decisions.

▪ But a family planning a wedding reception would be able to claim exemption from import duty.

▪ These secular concerns influence age at marriage, equality within marriage, and the confidence to use family planning services.

▪ Now she has the ability to access family planning sources without her husband.

▪ The position, which still pertains, is as close as the Church has ever come to legitimizing family planning.

future

▪ The only satisfactory resolution is to plan future visits in order to complete a thorough sampling.

▪ If a social worker comes to see your family, you can ask what is being planned for your future.

▪ Attention is needed not only for the here and now but for planning the future.

▪ There is a meeting of shareholders being planned to discuss the future of the Bank of Edinburgh.

▪ It could also serve as a basis for planning a future meeting.

▪ How should they use it to plan the future of the car industry and those who depend on it?

▪ Together they plan for a future in New York City with more exotic women than one is apt to find in Indiana.

government

▪ The Government plans to increase renewables from 3 % at present to 10 % of electricity in 2010.

▪ The Government plans to sell 51 % initially, with 46 % staying in public ownership.

▪ They have all but declared war on three government initiatives planned in and around the town.

▪ The government has responded by planning offshore wind farms on the Ijsselmeer.

▪ Given modern technology, firms can be flexible vis-a-vis the market and vis-a-vis government plans.

▪ The government is planning lavish festivities to entertain all the friends that it claims to have.

▪ Reports earlier in the month suggested that the government had already planned to impose a period of martial law.

trip

▪ I was not planning a trip to Alice Springs, I pointed out.

▪ The equity department was planning a boat trip to become further acquainted with the trainees on its short list.

▪ She'd thought a lot about this since they'd planned the trip.

▪ Got to plan my next trip.

▪ You can plan your own trip from there, or ask us to help.

▪ They are planning a trip together, arranging where to meet, discussing what to bring.

▪ By the time we were packing the chutes we were both hooked and planning another trip.

▪ It is strongly advised to check with the U. S. State Department for the latest security condition while planning this trip.

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help

▪ Here are two rules which may help to plan a forced win.

▪ The network focuses on a single application: networking powerful computers to help doctors plan radiation therapy for cancer treatment.

▪ Who can help you to plan this and what services will this patient need?

▪ Moreover, those who have helped you plan your communication will give it their active support. 5.

▪ The aim of the coming inquiry was to help the Society plan its next moves regarding Rakhat.

▪ So they helped plan our wedding instead.

▪ Knowledge of social problems will help a nurse to plan for discharge.

▪ She also is helping friends plan other kinds of graduation celebrations.