to construct a master plan for.
to master-plan one's career.
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.
First recorded in 1925–30
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The master plan fills in that concept with extensive detail, historical data, environmental guidelines and design principles.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
With the master plan in hand, Centennial Partners is now ready to start the crucial phase of finding capital, Araujo said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
Among the agreements signed on Wednesday was a framework for a Vietnam-South Korea "master plan on cooperation in science, technology and innovation".
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
The master plan doesn’t set out to pay for itself—the project would require a major public subsidy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
You could tell him the greatest master plan anybody’s ever invented and he’d just nod at you and keep eating his taco.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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