Planning

Definition

plan /plæn/ n ၁။ ~ (for sth/doing sth); ~ (to do sth) ႀကိဳတင္ႀကံဆခ်က္။ အစီအစဥ္။ စီမံခ်က္။ a plan to produce/for producing energy from waste material ❍ a development plan (eg for an industry or an area) ❍ a carefully worked-out plan ❍ What are your plans for the holidays? ❍ He's already making plans or his retirement. ❍ There has been a change of plan (ie it was decided not to do what was planned). ❍ The Chancellor said he had no plans to increase taxes. ❍ The best plan (ie The best thing to do) would be to ignore it completely. ❍ If everything goes according to plan (ie happens as I expect) I shall be back before dark. ❍ Let's consider our plan of attack/campaign (ie the way to approach the problem). See also MASTER- PLAN ၂။ (က) ပႏၷက္ပံု။ a plan of the royal palace and its surroundings ❍ a plan of the town centre/the London Underground. (ခ) ( esp pl ) ~ (for sth) စနစ္ပံု။ draw up plans for an extension to the house ❍ The architect submitted the plans for approval. (ဂ) (ေရးဆြဲထားေသာ) ပံုစံ။ plans of early flying machines. Compare CHART, GROUND-PLAN, MAP ၃။ (ေနရာခ်ထားမႈ) အစီအစဥ္ဇယား။ a seating plan (eg showing where people are to sit at a table). ၄။ (esp in compounds) (ရင္းႏီွးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ) အစီအစဥ္။ a pension/a savings/an investment plan. v ( -nn- ) ၁။ စီမံကိန္းထုတ္သည္။ အကြက္ခ်စီစဥ္သည္။ plan a garden ❍ a well planned city/essay/campaign. ၂။ (က) ~ ( for/on sth ) ႀကိဳတင္စီစဥ္သည္။ ျပင္ဆင္သည္။ plan for the future/one's retirement ❍ I had planned for 20 guests, but only 10 arrived. ❍ We hadn't planned on (having) twins! ❍ARRANGE (ခ) ~ ( on doing sth ) ရည္ရြယ္သည္။ စီစဥ္ထားသည္။ When do you plan to take your holiday? ❍ We're planning a holiday in France next summer. ❍ I'd planned on having a quiet evening at home, until you turned up! ❏ planner n (က) (also town planner ) ၿမိဳ႕ျပစီမံကိန္း ေရးဆြဲသူ။ (ခ) စီမံခ်က္ေရးဆြဲသူ။ military planners. ❏ planning n [U] (က) စီမံကိန္း။ The thing I enjoy most about holidays is the planning! See also FAMILY PLANNING (ခ) = TOWN PLANNING ❏ planning permission n [U] ေဒသႏၲရအာဏာပိုင္တို႔က ထုတ္ေပးေသာ အေဆာက္အအံုေဆာက္လုပ္၊ ျပင္ဆင္ခြင့္။ You have to get planning permission from City Hall. ❏ plan sth out [ PHRV ] အေသးစိတ္ စီမံခ်က္ေရးဆြဲသည္။ plan out one's annual expenditure ❍ plan out a new traffic system for the town.

Examples

1. An economic/spending/corporate plan
2. A peace plan
3. [make/work out/outline a plan] : We need to make a plan before we can start on the project.
4. [go/run according to plan] : Everything went according to plan (=there were no problems).
5. [a change of plan] : There’s been a change of plan. The meeting will now take place in Berlin.
6. [ahead of plan] : The building was completed ahead of plan.
7. [have/make plans for something] : We don’t have any plans for our holiday yet.
8. [plan to do something] : The administration has announced plans to reduce the use of pesticides in food production.
9. Her plan is to move to France after she graduates.
10. I’ve made a detailed plan of my new garden.
11. A seating plan
12. If everything goes to plan
13. the project will bring in a huge amount of money.