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plan of action

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Noun1.plan of action - a plan for actively doing something
play - a preset plan of action in team sports; "the coach drew up the plays for her team"
plan, program, programme - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue"
policy - a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group; "it was a policy of retribution"; "a politician keeps changing his policies"
battle plan - plan for conducting a battle
system - a procedure or process for obtaining an objective; "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation"
manoeuvre, tactic, tactics, maneuver - a plan for attaining a particular goal
scheme, strategy - an elaborate and systematic plan of action
travel plan, itinerary - a proposed route of travel
goal, end - the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means"

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In an hour's time we had arranged all the preliminaries, and decided upon our plan of action.
Her melancholy, however, began to turn to irritability, and not long before Boris' departure she formed a definite plan of action.
That, here he had a plan of action to recommend, with a conditional clause.
 
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