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plan, scheme, design, project; proposal, proposition, suggestion; resolution, motion; precaution (provision); deep-laid plan (premeditated) [more];, system (order),[more]; organization (arrangement); germ (cause)., sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon; rough cast, rough draft, draught, draught copy; copy; proof, revise., forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays; card; bill, protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare (food); base of operations; platform, plank, slate [U. S.], ticket [U. S.]., role; policy (line of conduct)., contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying [U.S.]; stratagem (cunning); trick (deception); alternative, loophole; shift (substitute); last shift (necessity)., measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card, court card; cheval de bataille, great gun; coup, coup d'etat; clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke; bright thought, bright idea., intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination; underplot, counterplot., schemer, schemist, schematist; strategist, machinator; projector, artist, promoter, designer; conspirator; intrigant (cunning).

plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent (imagine); set one's wits to work [more]; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare; hatch, hatch a plot, concoct; take steps, take measures., cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange; digest, mature., plot; counterplot, countermine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue (cunning).

planned; strategic, strategical; planning; in course of preparation; under consideration; on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor.