definite plan

collocation in English

meaningsofdefiniteandplan

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definite
adjective
uk
/ˈdef.ɪ.nət/us
/ˈdef.ən.ət/
fixed, certain, ...
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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 ofdefiniteandplanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There were calls for the appointment of sanitary inspectors, compound managers and medical officers, and ideas as to what needed to be done started to crystallize into adefiniteplan.
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I said that we were working to adefiniteplan.
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We have reached a stage now when we have adefiniteplanof economy.
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Therefore, it seems to me that we must evolve somedefiniteplanwhereby we can tackle this problem.
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We want to tell these agricultural people that it is really adefiniteplangoing on right into the future.
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It should be brought about as part of an organised anddefiniteplan.
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Clearly, our reserves must be organised and arranged according to somedefiniteplanand in pursuance of some definite aim.
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He also asked me to produce what he called adefiniteplan.
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But one cannot get adefiniteplanunless one first has observers in position.
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We must have adefiniteplan, and for that plan we must have proper organisation and proper readiness.
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Let them meet and draft adefiniteplanto be worked towards in all activities.
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It is essential, if this country is to progress, that we have adefiniteplanand that we move steadily forward.
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That is an important step forward, because we now have adefiniteplan.
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I feel that the mistake is that these subsidies are in no way linked to anydefiniteplan.
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Therefore, we ought not to commit ourselves to a toodefiniteplan.
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We are never going to commit ourselves once and for all to somedefiniteplanor scheme.
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Does he also realise that a concrete anddefiniteplanfor training and absorption into industry is long overdue, and will he expedite it?
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We should need adefiniteplanand some sort of date and assurance that the work would be undertaken.
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We hoped that, at least, on some of these questions there would be somedefiniteplan.
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I cannot say that we have adefiniteplanyet.
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