plan

Roget category 626

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.1. Conceptional volition

#626. Plan

noun

plan, scheme, design, project — proposal, proposition, suggestion — resolution, motion — precaution etc. (provision) 673 — deep-laid plan etc. (premeditated) 611 — system etc. (order) 58 — organization etc. (arrangement) 60 — germ etc. (cause) 153.
sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche [Fr.], brouillon [Fr.] — rough cast, rough draft, draught copy — copy — proof, revise.
drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation) 554.
forecast, program, programme, prospectus — carte du pays [Fr.] — card — bill, protocol — order of the day, list of agenda — bill of fare etc. (food) 298 — base of operations — platform, plank, slate [U.S.], ticket [U.S.].
role — policy etc. (line of conduct) 692.
contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device — pipelaying [U.S.] — stratagem etc. (cunning) 702 — trick etc. (deception) 545 — alternative, loophole — shift etc. (substitute) 147 — last shift etc. (necessity) 601.
measure, step — stroke, stroke of policy — master stroke — trump card, court card — cheval de bataille [Fr.], great gun — coup, coup d'etat [Fr.] — clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke — bright thought, bright idea.
intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot^†, machination — subplot, underplot^†, counterplot.
schemer, schemist^†, schematist^† — strategist, machinator — projector, artist, promoter, designer etc. v. — conspirator — intrigant etc. (cunning) 702^†.

verb

plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch — devise, invent etc. (imagine) 515 — set one's wits to work etc. 515 — spring a project — fall upon, hit upon — strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out — lay down a plan — shape out a course, mark out a course — predetermine etc. 611 — concert, preconcert, preestablish — prepare etc. 673 — hatch, hatch a plot concoct — take steps, take measures.
cast, recast, systematize, organize — arrange etc. 60 — digest, mature.
plot — counter-plot, counter-mine — dig a mine — lay a train — intrigue etc. (cunning) 702.

adjective

planned etc. v. — strategic, strategical — planning etc. v. — prepared, in course of preparation etc. 673 — under consideration — on the tapis^†, on the carpet, on the floor.

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