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planned, ppl. a.|plænd|
[f. plan v. + -ed1.]
Designed, projected, arranged, etc.: see the verb. planned economy: an economy in which industrial production and development, etc. are determined by an overall national plan; planned obsolescence: obsolescence of manufactured goods due to deliberate changes in design, cessation of the supply of spare parts, use of poor-quality materials, etc.
1770C. Chauncy Repl. Chandler's Appeal Defended (title-p.), Objections against the planned American Episcopate. 1884Black Jud. Shaks. xii, There had been a planned meeting. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 256 It must have been a planned-out affair. 1931Economist 18 July 111/2 The tendency in the world is towards some or other form of planned economy. 1936Discovery Sept. 295/1 Can present human motives work a planned society? 1942N.Y. Times 6 Mar. 23/7 The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., is the new corporate name of the Birth Control Federation of America, Inc., according to announcement yesterday by the organization's board of directors. 1943J. S. Huxley TVA xiii. 115 The transition from a laissez-faire to a planned economy. 1947Sun (Baltimore) 20 Sept. 1/2 The Senator's attack on what he calls the Truman Administration's policy of ‘planned inflation’. 1960I. Bennett Delinquent & Neurotic Children ix. 444 History: a planned baby. Both parents wanted a girl. 1965B. Pearce tr. Preobrazhensky's New Economics 159 The further abolition of the law of value..will proceed along the path of planned socialist organization of the economy in countries which make an end of the capitalist régime. 1966Punch 20 July 96/3 The planned-obsolescence men won't miss this one. 1969A. Cairncross in Advancement of Sci. XXVI. 64/2 It is possible to argue that there is no essential difference between a managed economy and a planned economy, and that planning is simply a rather inflexible form of management. 1977National Observer (U.S.) 1 Jan. 10/3 Things settled down into a buyer's market again, so the businessmen came up with another new gimmick. It was called planned obsolescence. Come out with a new model every year. Put a few new gadgets on it... Don't worry about the quality, it will be obsolete in three years anyway, besides, it's cheap. 1977J. Aiken Last Movement i. 17 Dru had been a planned child, whereas I was an unexpected..afterthought. 1977Spare Rib May 20/2 On Ash Wednesday..a newly opened Planned Parenthood Clinic in St Paul was fire bombed. |