planning

UK/ˈplænɪŋ/US/ˈplænɪŋ/

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Planning is the work of deciding in advance how something will be done. Careful planning, planning permission, months of planning.

In Britain the word has a second life as a legal term: planning permission is the council's consent to build, and getting it is a slow and public process. The general lesson of planning is that the plan is usually wrong and making it is still worth doing.

Definitions of planning

1nounplanningThe work of deciding in advance how something will be done.B1
“A wedding for two hundred guests takes months of careful planning.”
2nounofficialThe official control of building and land use.B2
“The council's planning department rejected their request to build an extension.”

Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.

planning is a preparing.

Practise this word

planning in the wild

Family planning is usually applied to a female-male couple who wish to limit the number of children they have or control pregnancy timing (also known as birth spacing).
Family planning
An important aspect of planning is its relationship to forecasting.
Planning
Forecasting aims to predict what the future will look like, while planning imagines what the future could look like.
Planning
Each event is different in its nature so process of planning and execution of each event differs on basis of the type of event.
Event management
An economy primarily based on planning is referred to as a planned economy.
Economic planning

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Definitions of planning

1nounplanningThe work of deciding in advance how something will be done.B1

“A wedding for two hundred guests takes months of careful planning.”

2nounofficialThe official control of building and land use.B2

“The council's planning department rejected their request to build an extension.”

Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.

planning is a preparing.