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plan

(plăn)

1. An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective: a plan for improving math instruction.

2. A proposed or intended course of action: had no plans for the evening.

3. A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline: a seating plan; the plan of a story.

4. A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.

5. In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.

6. A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit: a pension plan.

v. planned, plan·ning, plans

v.tr.

1. To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of: plan a campaign.

2. To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend: They plan to buy a house.

3. To draw or make a graphic representation of.

v.intr.

To make plans.

[French, alteration (influenced by plan, flat surface) of plant, ground plan, map, from planter, to plant, from Latin plantāre, from planta, sole of the foot; see plat- in Indo-European roots.]

plan′ner n.

Synonyms: plan, blueprint, design, project, scheme, strategy
These nouns denote a method or program in accordance with which something is to be done or accomplished: an ambitious plan for achieving energy independence; a blueprint for reorganizing the company; a design for ending the conflict; a project for urban renewal; a grand scheme aimed at ending illiteracy; a strategy for economic recovery.

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planned

(ˈplænd)

adj

1. politics commerce organized

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) politics commerce organized

3. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) politics commerce organized

4. (Commerce) politics commerce organized

5. premeditated

6. proposed or intended

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Adj.	1.	planned - designed or carried out according to a plan; "the planned outlays for new equipment" intended - resulting from one's intentions; "your intended trip abroad"; "an intended insult" premeditated - characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning; "a premeditated crime" unplanned - without apparent forethought or prompting or planning; "an unplanned economy"; "accepts an unplanned order"; "an unplanned pregnancy"; "unplanned remarks"
	2.	planned - planned in advance; "with malice aforethought" aforethought, plotted premeditated - characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning; "a premeditated crime"

Translations

pianificato predeterminato

planned

[plænd] ADJ [economy] → dirigido; [development, redundancy] → programado; [crime, murder] → premeditado; [pregnancy] → deseado

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planned

adj → geplant

planned

planned economy

n → Planwirtschaft f

planned obsolescence

n → geplanter Verschleiß

planned promotion

n → Regelbeförderung f

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Tyler's assistant secretary, who had been left at home, assured me that there was no doubt but that the Toreador had sailed as promised, since he knew his employer well enough to be positive that nothing short of an act of God would prevent his doing what he had planned to do.

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"You are glad to be leaving Singapore so soon?" he had asked, although he knew that she had not been advised that an early departure was planned.

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No man would refuse to quit a shattered and tottering habitation for a firm and commodious building, because the latter had not a porch to it, or because some of the rooms might be a little larger or smaller, or the ceilings a little higher or lower than his fancy would have planned them.