ADJ
- ambitious, audacious, grand, grandiose
- The government has ambitious plans for prison reform
- future
- long-term, three-year, etc.
- immediate
- What are your immediate plans?
- new
- original
- five-point, three-point, etc.
- a three-point action plan to improve hygiene at work
- definite, firm
- A spokeswoman confirmed there was no definite plan to stage a concert in the park
- detailed
- good
- The best plan is for me to meet you at the theatre
- best-laid
- Even the best-laid plans can go wrong
- brilliant, clever, cunning, fiendish, ingenious
- feasible, realistic, sound
- We need to develop a sound business plan
- impractical
- controversial
- master
- contingency
- Do you have any contingency plans if the scheme doesn't work?
- secret
- action
- strategic
- business, career, corporate, development, economic, financial
- travel
- marriage
- peace
VERB + PLAN
- have
- come up with, develop, devise, draw up, formulate, make, prepare, work out
- I like to make plans well in advance
- present, propose, put forward
- discuss
- agree
- The moves contravene the peace plan agreed by both sides
- announce, launch, outline, unveil
- The minister unveiled a new plan for reducing traffic accidents
- go ahead with, implement, press ahead with
- keep to, stick to
- Let's stick to our original plan
- cancel, change
- abandon, cancel, drop, scrap, shelve
- fight, oppose
- Local residents have vowed to fight plans to build a new road
PLAN + VERB
- be afoot
- Plans are afoot to stage a new opera
- be aimed at sth
- The government launched a five-year plan aimed at diversifying the economy
- call
- dam have been shelved following protests
PHRASES
- a plan of action/attack/campaign
- To change anything in this organization, we'll need a plan of action
- put a plan into action/effect/ operation
PLAN + VERB
- show sth
- The plan shows the exact location of the house. for sth, envisage
- sth, involve sth
- The plan calls for investments totalling $100 million
- .
- contain sth, include sth
- The plan contains four main elements
- succeed
- fail, fall through, founder
PREP
- ~ for
- The president will now press ahead with his plans for reform
- ~ to
- Plans to build a