grand plan

collocation in English

meaningsofgrandandplan

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grand
adjective
uk
/ɡrænd/us
/ɡrænd/
important and large ...
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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 ofgrandandplanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrand plan

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Our lives are led as a sequence of detailed events, rarely as somegrandplan.
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It is often the dominant presence of thisgrandplanin architectural designs which gives a building pomposity.
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She set out nograndplanof consumer action, advocated no specific policy measures, and aligned herself with no new consumer movement or organization of women.
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I do not think that agrandplanwould, in these circumstances, have the remotest chance of success.
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We have been asked to say what our answer is to thisgrandplanto get rid of the railway deficit.
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This reform is a good illustration of the subversive technique whereby a series of small steps can finally bring about thegrandplan.
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Does he really think that now is the time to launch agrandplanfor ever more state spending?
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It may or may not be part of agrandplan.
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That, of course, will be part of thegrandplan.
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Since thegrandplanhas not succeeded, we need to agree on what is possible.
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That is all in accordance with thegrandplanthat he advocates.
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So theirgrandplanwent off the rails within 12 hours of being announced.
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Instead of reflecting on how they could improve the scheme, they diminished it as part of theirgrandplanto increase the influence of the private pensions industry.
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It is a more reasonable principle than that adopted at the end of the last war when agrandplanwas made, and we had a grand failure.
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Members opposite talk about this enormous amount of money which is to be spent, as though they were setting out on somegrandplanof reconstruction.
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Where is thegrandplan?
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Hisgrandplanwas not implemented largely because rebuilding was financed by private enterprise and the desire was to rebuild quickly.
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Even weather forecasts are banned, as if these called some all-mighty'sgrandplan(and his power) into question.
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Thegrandplanof the inland rail link did not eventuate.
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It is these constantly occurring processes, not some divinely decreedgrandplan, which reproduces social structure.
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