planning

1. 1.

   an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action

   “the planning was more fun than the trip itself”

   Broaderpreparation

   Narrowerbirth controlscheduling
2. 2.

   the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise

   Broaderdesign

   Narrowercity planning
3. 3.

   the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening

   “his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties”

   Synonymspreparationprovision

   Broaderthinking

   Narroweragreementapplecartmens reacalculationpremeditation

Other forms of planning

plural

plannings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about planning

What does planning mean?

planning means "an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in planning?

planning has 2 syllables: plan-ning. The stress falls on "plan". In IPA it is /ˈplænɪŋ/.

What is another word for planning?

Close synonyms include preparation, provision. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is planning a common word?

planning is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.