planning
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- noun
- /ˈplænɪŋ/
- Good planning helps to avoid last-minute stress and ensures everything is ready on time.
- lesson planning
- strategic planning
- urban planning
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- I guess it's a year in the planning, you know, of this.
- Which then brings on the issue of planning, finances, all this stuff.
- Risk assessment is off, long term planning is shut down.
- Yeah, yeah, without planning, the opposite of planning.
- You know, it feels good for me planning, planning.
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The researchers used this knowledge to include both tribes in the planning of the project.
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The framework has two major phases: the planning phase and the implementation phase.
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I just get really bad at planning things for myself.
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A little planning can go a long way.
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We're still in the planning stages, basically.
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Well, it's not my firm, but the firm that I work for, we actually do something called estate planning.
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Careful money management and prudent planning allowed many extended families to create considerable wealth.
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Curricula containing career education and future career planning opportunities are deemed more relevant and valuable to students.
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I have also learned the importance of planning and preparation, which helps when you're having difficult conversations.
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After all our careful planning, the many years of meticulous research and experimentation, our dream is finally at hand.
Synonyms
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2.8
A plan or drawing that shows how something will look and work
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Making something ready for an event, activity, or use
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3.4
Organizing planned events by deciding their order and times
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2.8
A plan that shows when tasks or events happen
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3.5
Careful planning of actions to get a particular result
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7.9
Planning to do something, especially a crime, before you do it
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A plan to meet needs in the future
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The process of planning and making the shape and parts of something
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Careful planning for the future to avoid problems
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Making things ready before an event or activity
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Careful planning to make a new idea or way to do something
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The act of doing things before an event so it can happen
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To imagine and plan for the future
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Thinking about future needs to plan and avoid problems
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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A group of people who make plans and decisions about how a town or city grows
- Specialized
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Designing and arranging buildings, roads, and public spaces in cities and towns
- Specialized
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Designing and managing how buildings, roads, and public spaces are placed in a city
- Formal
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A group of local officials who advise and approve plans for land and buildings
- Specialized
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A way to avoid pregnancy by not having sex during a woman's fertile days, without using medicine or devices
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A natural way to avoid pregnancy by checking a woman's daily morning temperature to find days she can get pregnant
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A square wooden tool archaeologists use to map objects at a dig site
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A way to find a woman's fertile days by watching changes in cervical mucus
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A square wooden frame archaeologists use to draw and measure features at a site
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Etymology
Planning comes from the noun plan, which originally meant a 'map' or drawing on a flat surface from the old Latin word planus meaning 'flat'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a plan as a map you make before you act, so planning is making steps and choices ahead of time.