five-year plan
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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 ofplanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Afive-yearplanwas made for extensive experimentation, leading to the definitive introduction in 1991.
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In the years of the firstfive-yearplan(1928-32), around 12 million people migrated from the villages to work in the new industries.
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Five-yearplanfor social and economic development.
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In its firstfive-yearplanpublished recently the agency proposed giving particular attention to the needs of redundant workers.
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Its future manpower levels will be set taking into account its rollingfive-yearplan.
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That was that you did indeed have afive-yearplan, but you had a very good look at it each year.
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This, of course, may change as the need for imports to fulfil the secondfive-yearplanincreases, but for the time being, at any rate.
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There should be a realfive-yearplanfor modernisation and new construction.
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That is what we are doing when we assist thefive-yearplan.
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Recruitment to the mines is curtailed under thefive-yearplan.
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We now find ourselves on the threshold of the secondfive-yearplan.
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I do not think that anybody can dispute the failure of the firstfive-yearplan.
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We have been working on afive-yearplanfor school building and technical education and the universities.
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We are to have afive-yearplanfor rapid economic growth.
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In order to prove his words he said that the county council had not yet sent in itsfive-yearplan.
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I think that the period between 1998 and 2003 fits in with afive-yearplanwell.
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This will provide for an increase in the annual enrolment from 86,000 in 1953 to 130,000 by the end of thefive-yearplan.
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He has said that negotiations have been going on and that the expert committee has advised what he refers to as thefive-yearplan.
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