concrete plan
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconcreteandplan
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concrete
adjective
uk/ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/us/ˈkɑːn.kriːt/
clear and certain, or real and existing in a form that can be seen ...
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plan
noun
uk/plæn/us/plæn/
a set of decisions about how to do something in ...
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(Definition ofconcreteandplanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What are your innovative, compelling and concrete plans to combat climate change and to counter the decline in biodiversity?
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Surely he has some concrete plans to deal with the problem of the small poultry farmer, such as the extension of co-operative schemes?
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What sensible, concrete plans can you put forward to encourage such a scheme?
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This means that we have already had concrete plans, and we intend to accelerate this work.
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There are no concrete plans for financing them at all.
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I believe that if we are really to come together we must have aconcreteplan.
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When is discussion likely to finish and when is someconcreteplanlikely to be produced?
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There has been talk about the gas industry for so long, but noconcreteplanis on the table.
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One of the reasons for that is that we have not got aconcreteplanwhich we could discuss this evening.
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I think that he has done a service in working out aconcreteplan.
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In order to achieve a balance, aconcreteplanof action with a set timetable is needed.
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That was aconcreteplan.
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The firstconcreteplan, however, was to build just one dam but this would have meant sacrificing a number of villages.
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However, there was noconcreteplan.
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Compared to the general public, the self-employed were more likely to have thought about, and made concrete plans for their retirement.
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Many respondents talked about a ' return ' or withdrawal to farming as a new trend, but few of them were involved in this or had concrete plans to do so themselves.
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I hope he will tell us a little of their concrete plans now that they are in government.
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It is the concrete plans, the ideas that industrialists have for themselves for a development, that lead to steering firms to devlopment districts.
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We have agreed on the vision and now we have to deliver on the concrete plans, the concrete instruments to achieve that vision.
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