ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Phr. a business with an income at its heels [Cowper]; amoto quaeramus seria ludo [Lat.]
[Horace]; par negotiis neque supra [Lat.] [Tacitus].
626. Plan -- N. plan, scheme, design, project; proposal, proposition, suggestion;
resolution, motion; precaution &c (provision) 673; deep-laid plan &c (premeditated) 611;
system &c (order) 58; organization &c (arrangement) 60; germ &c (cause) 153.
sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche [Fr.], brouillon [Fr.]; rough cast,
rough draft, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.
drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation) 554.
forecast, program, programme, prospectus; carte du pays [Fr.]; card; bill, protocol;
order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare &c (food) 298; base of operations; platform,
plank, slate [U.S.], ticket [U.S.].
role; policy &c (line of conduct) 692.
contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying [U.S.];
stratagem &c (cunning) 702; trick &c (deception) 545; alternative, loophole; shift &c
(substitute) 147; last shift &c (necessity) 601.
measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card, court card; cheval
de bataille [Fr.], great gun; coup, coup d'etat [Fr.]; clever stroke, bold stroke, good
move, good hit, good stroke; bright thought, bright idea.
intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot † , machination; subplot, underplot † ,
counterplot.
schemer, schemist † , schematist † ; strategist, machinator; projector, artist, promoter,
designer &c v.; conspirator; intrigant &c (cunning) 702 [Obs.].
V. plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent &c
(imagine) 515; set one's wits to work &c 515; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike
out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a
course; predetermine &c 611; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare &c 673; hatch,
hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures.
cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange &c 60; digest, mature.
plot; counter-plot, counter-mine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue &c (cunning) 702.
Adj. planned &c v.; strategic, strategical; planning &c v.; prepared, in course of
preparation &c 673; under consideration; on the tapis † , on the carpet, on the floor.
627. Method [Path.] -- N. method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone,
guise; modus operandi, MO; procedure &c (line of conduct) 692.
path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack.
steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile; perron † .
bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway; drawbridge;
pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe &c 260.
door; gateway &c (opening) 260; channel, passage, avenue, means of access,
approach, adit † ; artery, lane, loan [Scot.], alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back-door, backstairs;
secret passage; covert way; vennel † .
roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike, freeway, royal
road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten
path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir † , footpath, pavement,
flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut &c (mid-course) 628;