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plan

 
 
/plæn/ verb (present participle planning, past tense and past participle planned)

Definition

THINK AND DECIDE to think about and decide what you are going to do or how you are going to do something: We're just planning our holidays. As a manager, you've got to plan ahead. I'd planned the meeting for Friday.
plan to do sth to intend to do something: He plans to go to college next year.
DESIGN [T] to decide how something will be built: We got an architect to help us plan our new kitchen.
(Definition of plan verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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