initial plan

collocation in English

meaningsofinitialandplan

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initial
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/us
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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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 ofinitialandplanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinitial plan

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Just before the war more buildings were added on the eastern side, but without respect for theinitialplan.
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One of the major expenses in servicing an account is entering the account data and setting up theinitialplan.
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Theinitialplanwas for fifteen officers to be stationed at each new station.
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Theinitialplanwas to dispatch a rescue party by dog sled across the ice.
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By giving selected angle and contains all fields defined to the consideration to all of these volumes at theinitialplan.
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As plans for the composition expanded, greater levels of detail gradually rendered thisinitialplanalmost unrecognizable.
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The original context was seriously modified, but the unchanged presence of a number of bones allows reconstruction of theinitialplan.
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A truly reactive system should be able to adjust theinitialplanfor solving a case according to new events occurring dynamically during the solving process.
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The simplicity of thisinitialplansuggests that the work's fragmentary qualities may not necessarily have been part of the original concept, but some aspects of this original structure survive.
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It is surely right and proper that the executive should prepare theinitialplan.
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An appeal is all very well, but an appeal of this kind, after theinitialplanhas been endorsed, is not good.
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Theinitialplanenvisages a service of 24 trains each hour in each direction during the rush hours, with capacity for up to 32 trains an hour in each direction.
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Theinitialplanwas to use nothing but recycled footage.
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These included 1,150 fighters, as opposed to 1,300 in theinitialplan.
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Theirinitialplanwas to operate the three separate business units in order to minimize disruption.
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The agreement regularized aninitialplanfor mitigating the damage caused by pirates.
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For unknown reasons, theinitialplancame to a halt in the summer of 1946.
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In return, the mayor gets to appoint two commission members rather than just one under the governor'sinitialplan.
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In theinitialplanthe cost of the system was set at around five million euros, which then skyrocketed to 30 million.
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Theinitialplanwas to create educational software for handheld digital books and personal digital assistants.
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