{
  "id": "plan.strategic",
  "term": "plan",
  "sense": "strategic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a design that orders actions in time to reach a goal",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "design.plan",
      "action.deed",
      "goal.purpose",
      "time.dimension",
      "order.arrangement",
      "reach.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "The design arranges actions over time so that they can achieve the goal.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal sequence of actions",
      "directed progression toward a future state",
      "structured path from present to goal"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "NASA's Voyager 1 mission launched in 1977 with a trajectory to use Jupiter's gravity to reach Saturn by 1980.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Marshall Plan delivered $13 billion in aid to rebuild Western European economies between 1948 and 1951.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A honeybee colony regulates foraging trips to optimize nectar collection based on daylight and flower cycles.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "design.plan",
      "note": "design",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "schedule.time"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "plan",
    "planned",
    "planning",
    "plans"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive components order.arrangement and reach.spatial which are implicitly relied upon in the definition. The original definition was correct but incomplete in its component list."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-plan.strategic"
}