Five-Year Plan

[fahyv-yeer]

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.

Five-Year Plan

noun

1. (formerly in socialist economies) a government plan for economic development over a period of five years

Word History and Origins

Origin of Five-Year Plan¹

1925–30; originally probably as translation of Russian pyatilétka

Example Sentences

"I have a five-year plan," she says.

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I’m not really the five-year plan girl, but in January, I’ll be like, “All right, now what are we going to do?”

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As for Carrie, well, it’s one thing to be a relentlessly hopeful romantic addicted to tulle, stilettos and problematic men in your 30s, but Carrie’s pushing 60 now, so when she agreed, with no demur, to Aidan’s absurd five-year plan, I wondered if she had simply gone mad.

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In 2023, Doechii announced she was three years into her five-year plan for becoming one of the biggest names in music.

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"This government has been simply putting, you know, sticks in the wheels of this five-year plan, not making it possible to implement broad parts of it," Amit adds.

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