masterplan

plural masterplans

1. alternativeAlternative form of master plan.

   It has been suggested that Mikel Jollett formed the Airborne Toxic Event driven by a cunning masterplan that involved combining the best bits of the Strokes, Arcade Fire and the Killers, to catapult the band from suburban Los Angeles to global indie-rock domination.

   2009 February 4, Chris Salmon, “The Airborne Toxic Event”, in The Guardian

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   The rail options in this first phase concentrate on developing major stations. Edinburgh Waverley's masterplan moves forward [...], and Transport Scotland will review capacity at Glasgow Central to find short-term ways of allowing longer and perhaps more frequent trains to run. A masterplan beckons too for Inverness, in line with long-standing local wishes.

   2021 February 24, Philip Haigh, “A shift from cars: Scotland's railways are friends of electric!”, in RAIL, number 925, page 30

present singular third person masterplans · participle present masterplanning · participle past masterplanned · past masterplanned

1. transitiveTo make a master plan of; to strategize.

   I'm keen to discuss the extent to which masterplanning can manage and, perhaps, even forecast the future.

   2013, Tom Verebes, editor, Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, →ISBN, page 23