open plan

American  

noun

1. a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.

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open-plan British  

adjective

1. having no or few dividing walls between areas

   an open-plan office floor

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Other Word Forms

• open-plan adjective

Etymology

Origin of open plan

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

On the OC’s large open plan floor, amid the banks of monitors arranged in clusters for the different mines, I meet Jess Cowie who used to be a manual driller but now directs autonomous ones from the central drill pod.

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"It was incredible. The master bedroom was absolutely enormous and had a balcony and an open plan bathroom, you could see over the sea."

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“You go from a modern open plan office in opposition to Downing Street where you’re all scattered around like kids in a big house who’ve gone off to separate bedrooms to do their homework.”

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On the OC’s large open plan floor, amid the banks of monitors arranged in clusters for the different mines, I meet Jess Cowie who used be a manual driller but now directs autonomous ones from the central drill pod.

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Its head office has been located at the Lodge Way Industrial Estate near Duston, Northampton since 1980, which the firm refurbished in 2022 to create an open plan workspace.

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