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noun
a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.
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Origin of open plan
First recorded in 1935–40
OTHER WORDS FROM open plan
open-plan, adjectiveWords nearby open plan
open one's eyes,
open one's heart to,
open one's mouth,
open order,
open-pit,
open plan,
open policy,
open-pollinated,
open position,
open primary,
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How to use open plan in a sentence
Meeting rooms and open plan café-like seating areas are replacing offices — and where you sit and work no longer denotes your place in the hierarchy.
The open plan “is not great for collaboration, not great for focus work,” Karlsen added.
The plan is to stretch it out as long as possible, then probably forget about it, and then suddenly remember it.
When it became too crowded, they moved her into an open casket on the street.
Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?
The various members met for the first time when they traveled to Gambia at the beginning of December to carry out their plan.
Her new comments will only add to ongoing speculation that the Yorks plan, one day, to remarry.
Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.
The doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.
It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.
Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!
British Dictionary definitions for open plan
adjective
having no or few dividing walls between areasan open-plan office floor
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