overall plan

collocation in English

meaningsofoverallandplan

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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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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 ofoverallandplanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A prices and incomes policy, no matter in what form it may be expressed, can only be part of anoverallplan.
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The company refused to discuss details of theiroverallplan.
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The time should be structured, and there should be anoverallplan.
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There must be anoverallplanand this requires an administrative change in three ways.
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That is part of anoverallplanfor transport involving £180 billion of public spending and private investment.
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Late bifaces demonstrate a considerable amount of variability inoverallplanshape.
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Each specialist contributes data on his or her area, which is then woven into theoverallplanby the anonymous master.
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Collectively, the experts convinced the court that the classification was neither appropriate nor essential to theoverallplanfor the city.
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They constitute theoverallplanor design of a work, the logic of its exposition.
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These addressed issues like streets, parks and open spaces, but did not include anoverallplan.
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But the accent throughout the book really has to be on ecclesiastical politics, administration and monastic proliferation, in view of itsoverallplan.
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Their results showed that most participants were incapable of developing anoverallplanto solve the wayfinding task, or of making decisions involving memory or inference.
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Theoverallplanwas the key.
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I have put forward the proposal that there should be anoverallplanfor economic government.
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Almost every paragraph contains aspects of anoverallplanwhich, if properly implemented, would sow the seeds of change and would benefit our whole community.
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Security is always part or anoverallplan.
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I do not underestimate the difficult engineering problems of sections of theoverallplan.
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That would ensure that issues such as vaccination could be integrated into anoverallplanthat relates to all aspects of disease control policy.
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Are they proposing to consider anoverallplan, or is it just to be left to individual district authorities?
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Highway investment will better serve the economic, social and environmental policies of theoverallplan.
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