单词 | planster |
释义 | planstern. depreciative. A person responsible for planning urban or land development. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > plotter compassera1513 engineer?a1513 hafter1519 contrivera1522 deviser1523 intrycarc1540 practiser1545 practisant1550 practitioner1560 brewer1563 platformer1572 hatcher1578 politician1586 plotter1594 tamperer1599 plotcaster1602 machinator1611 plot-maker1641 trinketer1651 intriguer1667 plot-monger1683 schemist1724 under-plotter1728 intriguant1781 policizer1809 intriguist1830 schemer1846 planster1945 wheeler-dealer1960 1945 J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 34 The planster's vision. 1964 Listener 9 Jan. 71/1 Such destruction has been launched on the face and form of England by witless plansters and lethally unimaginative local authorities. 1989 Daily Tel. 8 July (Weekend Suppl.) p. ix/3 If only..Sir John Betjeman, who celebrated the joys of Metroland and Middlesex, were still with us to lambast the ‘plansters’. 2000 New Statesman 13 Mar. 9/1 Labour has always been the plansters' party. The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, which nationalised development rights, is almost the only postwar nationalisation that has not been repealed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1945 |
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