original plan
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforiginalandplan
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original
adjective
uk/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/us/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form ...
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plan
noun
uk/plæn/us/plæn/
a set of decisions about how to do something in ...
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(Definition oforiginalandplanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theoriginalplanhad some shortcomings.
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A closer examination, however, reveals that these passages were not supplements planned from the beginning, but are rather insertions which clearly contradict theoriginalplanof the work.
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Theoriginalplanhad e been to carry provisions for one year in case there was a forced overwintering but there was insufficient space for them all.
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Theoriginalplanforecast building during the decade 1961–71 to a value of £500.
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Theoriginalplanwas to implement this proposal in 1966.
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The excess assets in theoriginalplansimply roll over to the modified plans.
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Under theoriginalplanto close the penal settlement, convicts who returned to the mainland were offered remissions of one-third of their sentence.
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The town was not in theoriginalplan.
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Cage later drastically modified hisoriginalplan, then abandoned it altogether.
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Despite theoriginalplanto issue one hundred volumes, this series has been stopped for commercial reasons after the fifty-ninth instalment was released.
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The composer's sketches reveal that the final shape of the work was altered from hisoriginalplan.
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In practice, car owners were ignoring many of the restraints imposed in theoriginalplan.
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Theoriginalplanwas then revised - not discarded - at the end of the war in 1945.
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In case of pre-planned trajectories, no complete re-planning is necessary and a simple adaptation of theoriginalplanis sufficient.
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As constructed, the neighbourhood did not follow theoriginalplan.
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This forced him to abandon both traditional ethnographic research and hisoriginalplanto investigate post-conflict social reconstruction.
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Theoriginalplancalled for the publication of statistics on births, deaths, marriages, fertility, morbidity, and other ' special statistics ', with an abstract for each province.
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In theoriginalplanthese were to follow meetings with the main study practices.
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That he could so readily change theoriginalplanfor a finale into something else does, though, point to the work's lack of cogency.
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