master plan

¹

noun

1. a general plan or program for achieving an objective.

master-plan

²

[mas-ter-plan, mah-ster-]

verb (used with object)

master-planned, master-planning 

1. to construct a master plan for.

   to master-plan one's career.

2. to develop or improve (land, a community, a building complex, or the like) through a long-range plan that balances and harmonizes all elements.

   The engineers master-planned the island to provide for increases in the tourist population.

master plan

noun

1. a comprehensive long-term strategy

Word History and Origins

Origin of master plan¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

As Hill described it last month, they weren’t so much “solving this master plan” with Sasaki as they were “helping him actualize the things” he was trying to do in his delivery.

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In its fourth master plan, released on Sept. 1, the company laid out a high-level vision in which artificial intelligence, robotics, and energy storage systems eliminate scarcity.

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“It wasn’t as much solving this like, master plan or whatever. It was moreso helping him actualize the things that he was seeing.”

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Francis is determined to keep his two bosses apart, a recipe for farcical mayhem, made all the more complicated by Rachel’s convincing drag act and Stanley’s ignorance of her master plan.

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The preliminary plan, issued in February, is the basis for a detailed master plan and environmental report Centennial Partners is expected to complete by the spring.

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Related Words

• blueprint 
• scheme