open plan

noun

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

open-plan

adjective

1. having no or few dividing walls between areas

   an open-plan office floor

Other Word Forms

• open-plan adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of open-plan¹

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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