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plannee en · NOUN

Etymology

From plan + -ee.

Meanings

1. A person for whom plans are made.
   • Yet the success of any and all plans depends significantly on the cooperation and consent of the plannees; the downfall of many plans can be traced to the resistance and creative avoidance schemes of reluctant or unwilling plannees. 2005, Marguerite Mendell, Reclaiming Democracy, page 15:
   • You can plan until the cows come home, but what you really need is the collaboration and the consent of the plannee. The neglect of plannees is an outgrowth of the type of technological thinking that regards every issue as a production problem. 2006, Ursula Franklin, Michelle Swenarchuk, The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map:

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