plan
noun
a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance.
Example Sentences
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In this planlessness and confusion of purposes lay the seeds of Iraq's present chaos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such planless indeterminate lives, plebeian lives, mere lives, fill the world, and the spectacle of whole nations, our whole civilization, seems to me to re-echo this planlessness, this indeterminate confusion of purpose.
From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
But, with all this, there may be much incoherence and planlessness.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart
But most of it is due to blind competitive planlessness and waste.
From The Coming of Coal by Bruere, Robert W.
To make all this distincter I will show the planlessness of certain contemporary things, of two main sets of human interests in fact, and explain what inferences a Socialist draws in these matters.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
