| 单词 | plan of action |
| 释义 | plan of action (once / 7256 pages) n WORD FAMILY plan of action: plans of action USAGE EXAMPLESHe told his Cabinet on Sunday that Israel was looking into a “plan of action” against the U.N. Seattle Times(Dec 25, 2016) Living on that edge may not be the best plan of action against these Giants. New York Times(Dec 16, 2016) After his inauguration, Kennedy created a panel of scientists, doctors and others to develop a plan of action. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) n a plan for actively doing something Hypo|Hyper play a preset plan of action in team sports policya plan of action adopted by an individual or social group battle planplan for conducting a battle systema procedure or process for obtaining an objective maneuver, manoeuvre, tactic, tacticsa plan for attaining a particular goal scheme, strategyan elaborate and systematic plan of action itinerary, travel plana proposed route of travel knock on(rugby) knocking the ball forward while trying to catch it (a foul) power play(ice hockey) a play in which one team has a numerical advantage over the other as a result of penalties football play(American football) a play by the offensive team razmataz, razzle, razzle-dazzle, razzmatazzany exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent basketball playa play executed by a basketball team activisma policy of taking direct and militant action to achieve a political or social goal beggar-my-neighbor policy, beggar-my-neighbor strategy, beggar-my-neighbour policy, beggar-my-neighbour strategya policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others; used especially of national policy credit systema system for allowing people to purchase things on credit legal systema system for interpreting and enforcing the laws pricing systema system for setting prices on goods or services promotion systema system for advancing participants to higher-status positions contrivance, dodge, stratageman elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade counterterrorisma strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism game plan(sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport game plan(figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs bubble, house of cardsa speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control playbooka scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign game, plot, secret plana secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) pyramid schemea fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in waiting gamea strategy of delay wheeze(Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick centralismthe political policy of concentrating power in a central organization containmenta policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully moderationismthe policy of being moderate or acting with moderation obscurantisma policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge Thatcherism(England) the political policy of Margaret Thatcher ultramontanism(Roman Catholic Church) the policy that the absolute authority of the church should be vested in the pope incentive program, incentive schemea formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something plan, program, programme a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished |
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