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plan

 
 
/plæn/ noun [C]

Translation

ARRANGEMENT an arrangement for what you intend to do or how you intend to do something
plân
the country's economic plan Do you have any plans for the weekend? The plan is that we'll buy a car once we're there. There's been a change of plan and we're going on Wednesday instead. Luckily, everything went according to plan (= happened the way it was planned).2199
DRAWING a drawing that shows how something appears from above or will appear from above when it is built
plân, proje, taslak, çizim
a street plan. We had a designer draw up a plan for the yard.3683
(Definition of plan noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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