Word Finder - planning

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To design (a building, machine, etc.).

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The architect planned the building for the client.

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To create a plan for.

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They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.

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To intend.

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He planned to go, but work intervened.

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To make a plan.

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They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

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Action of the verb to plan.

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The act of formulating of a course of action, or of drawing up plans.

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The act of making contingency plans.

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Planning permission.

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My neighbours were going to build an extension but they didn't get planning.

I was planning on fixing breakfast.

I better start planning my menu, only four days left.

How did the planning go?

It took planning and perseverance to be successful.

Are you planning on running - or do you think he is?

I've been planning it since...

My guess is someone did a bit of planning for Jerome Shipton's big fall, and Edith hasn't demonstrated any real talent for long-range thinking.

She is as weak at battle planning as Sirian is strong.

He's planning something big for the weekend, and it sounds like his pop will be in town for it.

Our chore held the aura of planning a vacation, not making a life changing decision.

Her father was planning something that depended on her magic.

Whatever this Watcher was planning, it wasn't good.

He's just sitting back somewhere planning how to nail you.

The school was planning a summer fund-raiser and she had volunteered, so she was getting ready to go to a meeting.

A certain amount of planning and calculation went into all of her actions.

Natasha guessed they were talking about the old prince and planning something, and this disquieted and offended her.

We know what he's planning, he said calmly.

He was unaccustomed to planning ahead and now would pay.

The Internet has no central planning agency deciding what new, cool websites should be made.

The teachers at the Wright-Humason School were always planning how they might give the pupils every advantage that those who hear enjoy--how they might make much of few tendencies and passive memories in the cases of the little ones--and lead them out of the cramping circumstances in which their lives were set.

Not planning on it.

He never did anything without planning it carefully ahead of time, and he'd never broken his honor code, even with Qatwalis.

Ne'Rin didn't have the mind for battle planning, another reason A'Ran hesitated to assume the worst about him.

She felt very alone as she realized his plotting was not the result of a few months of planning but the maneuvers of a calculating, patient man.

Probably planning his next move.

In addition, all her planning and tenacity were paying off.

Unless he was planning on getting them!

Rhyn watched him go, wondering just what his brother was planning, and how he.d figure it out before Katie was hung on the wall next to his mother.

He was planning something, if he invited Hannah to the castle.

She'd learned the parts of a warship inside and out while learning the battle planning and looked for the configuration button among her options popping up on the screen.

Shipton wasn't even in Ouray yet so no one could have been planning to use it to kill him.

Darian, who he'd just pulled off the bottom of the ocean instead of attending his planning session to deal with the Talon issue.

In either case, I'm planning on expelling them and the Others both from the mortal realm.

He never had to wonder how many men were rotating through her bed or when she was planning to stab him in the back or decipher the riddles she gave him as answers to important questions.

General Greene asked from his position at a small planning table in the corner.

She couldn't help but feel surprised by the kindness and careful planning of the refugees who'd lost everything but electricity in one building.

Alright, but know that Tamer's planning on bringing it up next meeting.

He could kick her out, but it sounds like she's planning to leave anyway.

He never ceased to work, and when near his end was actively engaged in planning the Encyclopaedia Biblica, which he had hoped to edit.

While the supply had been furnished by a private corporation, the city was in 1910 planning for the ownership of its water-system, the supply to be drawn from the Sierras at a cost of some $45,000,000.

While planning a warlike expedition against Poland, on which country the Bohemian sovereigns now again maintained their claim, he was murdered by unknown assassins (1306).

Accordingly, we find him journeying again in 1351 to Vaucluse, again refusing the office of papal secretary, again planning visionary reforms for the Roman people, and beginning that 'curious fragment of an autobiography which is known as the Epistle to Posterity.

Documents show him, among other things, planning during an absence of several months from the city vast new engineering works for improving the irrigation and water-ways of the Lomellina and adjacent regions of the Lombard plain; ardently studying phenomena of storm and lightning, of river action and of mountain structure; co-operating with his friend, Donato Bramante, the great architect, in fresh designs for the improvement and embellishment of the Castello at Milan; and petitioning the duke to secure him proper payment for a Madonna lately executed with the help of his pupil, Ambrogio de Predis, for the brotherhood of the Conception of St Francis at Milan.

The arrangement of the building and floor framings is in a great measure governed by the architectural effect sought and by the arrangement and proper planning of the interior according to the intended uses; the positions of columns, girders and floor beams are usually the result of particular requirements, and unless complicated and expensive framing is to be expected the distance between columns must be kept within the limits of simple girder construction.

Every building offers its own peculiar condition; the height, width, shape and situation of the structure, and character of the enclosing walls, will determine the amount of wind pressure to be provided against, and the internal appearance and the planning of the various floors will largely influence the manner in which the bracing is to be treated.

The Allies, now planning an attack against the Turks along the Lone Pine area were sending reinforcement to the area.

The developer might voluntarily relinquish all or part of the planning consent in recognition of the value of the site for nature conservation.

Before local government reorganization in 1996, he worked with Falkirk District Council in forward planning.

Both ICRI and the Mauritius event served as reminders to look beyond sectoral issues in MPA planning toward overall social and ecological resilience.

Risk analysis and business resumption planning in the event of disaster are other important areas which we can help you with.