planning

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action
noun the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise
noun the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening

I’ve been thinking and planning. — Anne of Green Gables, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
But secret planning, you understand. — The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
It is all his planning." — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore

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