PLANNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does planner mean? 

• PLANNER (noun)
  The noun PLANNER has 2 senses:

1. a person who makes plans

2. a notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc.

  Familiarity information: PLANNER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who makes plans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

contriver; deviser; planner

Hypernyms ("planner" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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

designer; intriguer (a person who devises plots or intrigues)

maneuverer; manoeuvrer (a person skilled in maneuvering)

plotter; schemer (a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action)

strategian; strategist (an expert in strategy (especially in warfare))

tactician (a person who is skilled at planning tactics)

Derivation:

plan (make plans for something)

plan (make or work out a plan for; devise)

plan (make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("planner" is a kind of...):

notebook; notebook computer (a small compact portable computer)

Derivation:

plan (make plans for something)

 Context examples 

But the map reveals particularly shallow deposits that future mission planners may want to study further.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

The results could be used to help designers and urban planners incorporate natural ventilation principles into their designs so that buildings can be kept at a comfortable temperature while using less energy.

(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)

For information to be useful, not only does it need to be made available at the right time to those who need it such as policy makers, program planners, and health professionals, and patients but it has to be in the right form.

(Information Dissemination, NCI Thesaurus)

Some of these cosmic rays are blocked by the heliosphere, so mission planners expect that Voyager 2 will measure an increase in the rate of cosmic rays as it approaches and crosses the boundary of the heliosphere.

(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)

A handful of telescopes deployed by the New Horizons team in a remote part of Patagonia, Argentina were in the right place at the right time to catch its fleeting shadow — an event known as an occultation – and were able to capture important data to help mission flyby planners better determine the spacecraft trajectory and understand the size, shape, orbit and environment around MU69.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)