Marshall Plan
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5.8
- proper noun
- /ˈmɑːrʃəl plæn/
:
Plan Marshall
- Humphrey then tried, on several occasions, to proclaim the need for a "Marshall Plan for the Cities," only to incur Johnson's wrath once again for speaking out of turn.
Examples
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The new Marshall Plan must go beyond the so-called Tobin Tax and the redistribution plan proposed by George Soros.
Academic text (2004) -
It will take a decade or even a generation until this new "Marshall Plan" is completed.
Blog text (12) -
By early 1948, American strategy was moving forward from the Marshall Plan in the direction of NATO.
Academic text (1992) -
Indeed, Mitt's plan sounded so positive that it could be compared to a Middle Eastern Marshall Plan.
Blog text (11) -
Contrary to the received wisdom of the moment, a vast assistance program on the pattern of the Marshall Plan would not do much good.
Academic text (1992) -
The president has called for a counterpart of the Marshall Plan in order to rebuild Afghanistan in the wake of the war there.
Academic text (2003) -
Betancourt's major speech at the conference asked for a Marshall Plan for Latin America, but Marshall, addressing the conference himself, made clear that resources were not available for such aid.
Academic text (1992) -
As Jesse Jackson suggested, we need a Marshall Plan to transcend national boundaries in an all-out war on HIV/AIDS.
Academic text (2001) -
The president proposed a new Marshall Plan to aid the struggling economy after the recent crisis.
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Many experts believe that a comprehensive Marshall Plan is essential for rebuilding the war-torn region.
Synonyms
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1.0
A set of steps arranged to reach a goal
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4.0
A long guide for how to develop and manage a city or campus over many years
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4.6
A large government program of reforms and public spending based on 1930s United States policies
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Marshall + plan
The phrase is an eponymous proper name plus the noun 'plan'; knowing 'Marshall' only indicates a person/name and 'plan' indicates a program, but does not convey the specific historical, political, and large-scale aid meaning. A B1 learner who knows the words but lacks cultural/historical knowledge would not be able to derive that it refers to the specific 1948–1952 U.S. aid program, so the expression is not compositionally transparent.
Etymology
Marshall Plan became a general label because the original was a big, well-organised effort that helped many countries rebuild; so people now call any similar large recovery effort 'a Marshall Plan' when they mean 'a big, coordinated program of aid or reconstruction'.