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plan B en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) An alternative approach adopted when one's original plan does not succeed.
    • "There was no plan B, other than the Pendolino would have to run in non-tilt mode at 110mph."[…]. 2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 35:
    • After failing to find a wife by 40, he had to rely on plan B, a mail-order bride.
    • She needed something else...A backup plan, a plan "B". 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 3:
    • to (not) have a plan B

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
plan Bs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

plan C · plan A

Relateds

there is no Planet B · change one's battery

Synonyms

contingency plan