planning

noun

plan·​ning ˈpla-niŋ 

: the act or process of making or carrying out plans

specifically : the establishment of goals, policies, and procedures for a social or economic unit

city planning

business planning

Examples of planning in a Sentence

Careful planning made the party a success.

Recent Examples on the Web

One of the largest shares of the city’s overall spending is directed toward public safety across various departments, with other significant funding directed toward neighborhood services — which includes housing, libraries, parks, recreation, and planning. —Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 10 June 2026

Remember, Mercury oversees communication, information, planning and perception, while Saturn brings limits, discipline, scrutiny and reality checks. —Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026

The cloak-and-dagger planning strategy is all by design, according to luxury wedding planner Colin Cowie, who is not involved in Swift and Kelce’s wedding but has planned weddings for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck as well as Don Henley and Sharon Summerall, among others. —Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 9 June 2026

And those patterns could help inform future public policy around urban planning. —Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1730, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing planning

• city planning
• family planning
• natural family planning

Rhymes for planning

• panning
• scanning
• spanning
• tanning
• preplanning
• replanning
• scintiscanning