planning

planning
[[t]plæ̱nɪŋ[/t]]
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1) N-UNCOUNT Planning is the process of deciding in detail how to do something before you actually start to do it.
See also family planning

The trip needs careful planning...

The new system is still in the planning stages.

2) N-UNCOUNT Planning is control by the local government of the way that land is used in an area and of what new buildings are built there.

...a masterpiece of 18th-century town planning...

He supported the planning authority in refusing the application because of pressures on the Green Belt.


English dictionary. 2008.

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