# planning

Pronunciation: say "PLAN-ing" /ˈplænɪŋ/

## Noun

1. The act or process of working out in advance how to do something, including how to deal with things that might go wrong.
   - Simple: Deciding ahead of time how you will do something.
   - _Careful planning prevented most of the problems the team had feared._
   - _Months of planning went into organizing the city's annual festival._
3. The work of regulating and designing how land in a town, city, or region is used, developed, and built on.
   - Simple: The work of deciding how land in a town, city, or region is used and what can be built on it.
   - _She left architecture for planning, where she could shape whole neighborhoods instead of single buildings._
   - _The county planning board approved new zoning rules for the riverfront._
4. Official permission from a local authority to carry out building or development work. *(colloquial, British)*
   - Simple: Official permission from the local government to build, change a building, or develop land.
   - _The developers finally secured planning for the riverside flats._
   - _Without planning, you cannot legally extend the property._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of plan. — present participle and gerund of plan
   - Simple: Present participle of plan. Use this form for something being worked out or for the act of making a plan.
   - _The committee is planning a new park for the neighborhood._
   - _They spent two weeks planning the route before setting off._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/planning (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).