Plan vs. Agenda — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Plan and Agenda
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Plan
A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal.
Agenda
A list of things to be discussed in a meeting.
Plan
An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective
A plan for improving math instruction.
Agenda
A program of things to be done or considered
"King's broadening of the civil rights agenda to include issues of class, income, and employment" (James Carroll).
Plan
A proposed or intended course of action
Had no plans for the evening.
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Agenda
(Informal) A usually unstated underlying motive
"Everyone has an agenda, whether he or she is honest about it or not" (Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger).
Plan
A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline
A seating plan.
The plan of a story.
Agenda
A datebook
Bought a leather-bound agenda.
Plan
A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.
Agenda
A plural of agendum.
Plan
In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.
Agenda
A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
Plan
A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit
A pension plan.
Agenda
A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
Plan
To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of
Plan a campaign.
Agenda
A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
Plan
To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend
They plan to buy a house.
Agenda
An ulterior motive.
Plan
To draw or make a graphic representation of.
Agenda
(obsolete) A ritual.
Plan
To make plans.
Agenda
Plural of agendum
Plan
A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
Agenda
A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
Plan
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.
Agenda
A list of matters to be discussed (as at a meeting).
Plan
A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
Agenda
A motive or set of goals; as, to have one's own agenda;
Plan
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
Agenda
A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
Plan
A subscription to a service.
A phone plan
An Internet plan
Agenda
A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
Plan
(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
The architect planned the building for the client.
Plan
(transitive) To create a plan for.
They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
Plan
(intransitive) To intend.
He planned to go, but work intervened.
Plan
(intransitive) To make a plan.
They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.
Plan
A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
Plan
A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
God's plans like lines pure and white unfold.
Plan
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
The simple plan,That they should take who have the power,And they should keep who can.
Plan
To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
Plan
To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
Even in penance, planning sins anew.
Plan
A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;
They drew up a six-step plan
They discussed plans for a new bond issue
Plan
An arrangement scheme;
The awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult
It was an excellent design for living
A plan for seating guests
Plan
Scale drawing of a structure;
The plans for City Hall were on file
Plan
Have the will and intention to carry out some action;
He plans to be in graduate school next year
The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion
Plan
Make plans for something;
He is planning a trip with his family
Plan
Make or work out a plan for; devise;
They contrived to murder their boss
Design a new sales strategy
Plan an attack
Plan
Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
Design a better mousetrap
Plan the new wing of the museum
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