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A plan is a set of instructions for attaining a given objective.
Plan or PLAN or planning may also refer to:
- Planning, the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan
- Planning (cognitive), neurological processes involved in achieving a desired goal
Plan types
- Automated planning and scheduling, a branch of Artificial Intelligence
- Business plan
- Development plan
- Language planning
- Marketing plan
- Military plan
- Plans (drawings), used for portraying an existing place or object, or for providing instructions to build or fabricate a place or object
- Project planning
- Retirement plan
- Urban planning
Acronyms
- PLAN (examination), a standardized test administered by ACT, Inc.
- People's Liberation Army Navy of China
- People's Liberation Army of Namibia
- Personal Localized Alerting Network, an emergency alert system that uses mobile devices
- PLANS (non-profit) (People for Legal and Non-Sectarian Schools)
Entertainment
- "iPlan", a 2023 song by Dlala Thukzin
- Plan (film), a 2004 Bollywood film
- Plans (album), an album by the band Death Cab for Cutie
- "Plans", a song by Bloc Party from Silent Alarm (album)
- "Plans" (song), a song by Birds of Tokyo
- The Plan (2015 film), a 2015 Indian Kannada film
Places
- Planá (Tachov District) (in German: Plan), a city in West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Planá (České Budějovice District) (in German: Plan), a village in South Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Plan (Huesca), a place in the Spanish Provinz Huesca
- Plan (Samnaun), a village in the Swiss Gemeinde Samnaun
- Plan, Isère, commune in the Isère department, France
- Plan, Albania, a village in the Pult area
Politics
- Plans in Mexican history, a declaration of principles announced in conjunction with a rebellion (see also pronunciamiento)
Technology
- .plan file, a file containing user information used by the Finger protocol
- Calligra Plan, a project management application
- Plan (calendar program), for the X Window System
- PLAN (computer language) (Programming LAnguage for Nineteen-hundred), used to program ICT 1900 series computers
Other uses
- Plan (aid organisation), an international organisation that allows people to sponsor children in developing countries
- Plan (magazine), an Irish architectural publication
- Slang for planning permission
See also
- Five-year plan (disambiguation)
- Four Year Plan, a series of economic reforms in Nazi Germany
- PDCA (Plan-do-check-act), a management method used in business
- Planner (disambiguation)
- The Plan (disambiguation)