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preplanned

/plan/US // plæn //UK // (plæn) //

预先计划的,预计划的,预先规划的,预先计划好的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
    • : a design or scheme of arrangement: an elaborate plan for seating guests.
    • : a specific project or definite purpose: plans for the future.
    • : Also called plan view . a drawing made to scale to represent the top view or a horizontal section of a structure or a machine, as a floor layout of a building.
    • : a representation of a thing drawn on a plane, as a map or diagram: a plan of the dock area.
    • : one of several planes in front of a represented object, and perpendicular to the line between the object and the eye.
    • : a formal program for specified benefits, needs, etc.: a pension plan.
v.有主动词 verb
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    planned, plan·ning.

    • : to arrange a method or scheme beforehand for: to plan a new recreation center.
    • : to make plans for: to plan one's vacation.
    • : to draw or make a diagram or layout of, as a building.
v.无主动词 verb
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    planned, plan·ning.

    • : to make plans: to plan ahead; to plan for one's retirement.

Phrases

  • plan on
  • best-laid plans

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • She claimed the attack in Libya was “spontaneous” and not preplanned.

  • One leader says there was a preplanned plot from abroad, and 50 people have been arrested in the Benghazi siege.

  • “We do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned,” Rice said.

  • They were not brought out in the thousands to protect a preplanned procession of the already vulnerable Shiite community.

  • And this, I would say, not always in conscious design, but some of it happening quite without preplanned intent.

  • You have said she is too cold, you have said you thought that all this was preplanned.

  • If there is no public fallout shelter near your home, prepare a permanent or preplanned family shelter at home.

  • No, but the whole thing seemed to be a kind of a preplanned thing.

  • You said that you were beginning to wonder whether this is a preplanned affair.