drawing up of a plan

  • 1drawing board — n 1.) (go) back to the drawing board if you go back to the drawing board, you start again with a completely new plan or idea, after the one you tried before has failed ▪ The current system just isn t working we need to go back to the drawing… …

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  • 2Plan Kathleen — Plan Kathleen, sometimes referred to as Artus Plan, was a military plan for the invasion of Northern Ireland sanctioned by Stephen Hayes, Acting Irish Republican Army (IRA) Chief of Staff, in 1940.[1] Plan Kathleen is frequently confused with… …

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  • 3plan — ▪ I. plan plan 1 [plæn] verb planned PTandPPX planning PRESPARTX 1. [intransitive, transitive] to think carefully about something you want to do in the future, and decide exactly how you will do it: • We ve been planning this …

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  • 4plan# — plan n Plan, design, plot, scheme, project, as nouns, denote a proposed method of doing or making something or of achieving a given end, and as verbs, to devise such a method. Plan, in its widest sense, regularly implies mental formulation of the …

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  • 5plan — [n1] scheme, design, way of doing things aim, angle, animus, arrangement, big picture*, contrivance, course of action, deal, device, disposition, expedient, game plan, gimmick, ground plan, idea, intent, intention, layout, machination, meaning,… …

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  • 6Plan of a Novel — Plan d un roman, selon de petits conseils reçus de diverses sources Portait du Prince Régent, à qui est dédicacé Emma. Par Sir Thomas Lawrence, en 1816. Plan of a Novel according to Hints from Various Quarters (littéralement « Plan d un… …

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  • 7Plan Wschód — ( Plan East ) was a Polish defensive military plan, created in the 1920s and 1930s in case of war with the Soviet Union. Unlike Plan Zachód ( Plan West ), it was being prepared during the whole interbellum period, as the government of the Second… …

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  • 8plan — [plan] n. [Fr, plan, plane, foundation: merging of plan (< L planus: see PLAIN1) with MFr plant < It pianta < L planta, sole of the foot: see PLANT] 1. a drawing or diagram showing the arrangement in horizontal section of a structure,… …

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  • 9plan — ► NOUN 1) a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something. 2) an intention or decision about what one is going to do. 3) a scheme for the regular payment of contributions towards a pension, insurance policy, etc. 4) a map or diagram. 5) a… …

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  • 10drawing — index attractive, design (construction plan), lottery Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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