There are plans to turn the site of the factory into a park.

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2 METHOD/ARRANGEMENT a set of actions for https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/achieve something in the https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/future, especially a set of actions that has been considered carefully and in https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/detailplan to do something

Here in the sentence, do you native English speakers think that plans is equal to to turn the site of the factory into a park?

Or plans means measures to turn the site of the factory into a park?

I think that the word plan can be used differently, depending on context.

What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Don't use Longman.

Hans51I think that the word plan can be used differently, depending on context.

That's for sure. In your citation, it is used in a rather journalistic fashion. Journalists love short words because they use fewer column-inches. No actual plan has to exist for that sentence to be possible for a journalist. If an unnamed source mentioned in passing that someone mentioned that there had been talk among the powers that be about repurposing the site, then that's good enough to call it a plan. In everyday English, it is rumored that the site might be turned into a park, or you would use a full sentence to say what you really mean, maybe "One source who is privy to the deliberations of the planning board has let it slip that there is a motion on the table to turn …."

There are plans to turn the site of the factory into a park.

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