PLAN OF ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plan of action mean? 

• PLAN OF ACTION (noun)
  The noun PLAN OF ACTION has 1 sense:

1. a plan for actively doing something

  Familiarity information: PLAN OF ACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAN OF ACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plan for actively doing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("plan of action" is a kind of...):

plan; program; programme (a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished)

Meronyms (parts of "plan of action"):

end; goal (the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plan of action"):

play (a preset plan of action in team sports)

policy (a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group)

battle plan (plan for conducting a battle)

system (a procedure or process for obtaining an objective)

maneuver; manoeuvre; tactic; tactics (a plan for attaining a particular goal)

scheme; strategy (an elaborate and systematic plan of action)

itinerary; travel plan (a proposed route of travel)

 Context examples 

Firstly.—We must differentiate between what he did in London as part of his general plan of action, when he was pressed for moments and had to arrange as best he could. Secondly we must see, as well as we can surmise it from the facts we know of, what he has done here.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In all our hunting parties and adventures in different parts of the world, Quincey Morris had always been the one to arrange the plan of action, and Arthur and I had been accustomed to obey him implicitly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)