plannerplan‧ner /ˈplænə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
City planners are looking for ways to ease traffic. Many financial planners will help you shop for insurance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Planners expect the new segment of the subway to carry as many as 3,000 people per day.
- a financial planner
- City planners have been working for years on a new design for the plaza.
- Economic planners fear that there will be a 5% fall in real incomes next year.
- I worked as a city planner in New York for 15 years.
- Military planners and diplomats worry that the North's increasing distress over food supplies could provoke it to invade the South.
- The proposal will be carefully examined by a committee of executives, planners and consultants.
- But planners changed their mind as they realized the channels would have to be bigger and bigger.
- I also enjoy working with other professionals such as town planners and architects.
- Ned is a corporate planner in a large electronics products company.
- Permission was granted - for a one year period - by local planners last week.
- Sadly, population planners and contraceptive manufacturers do not seem to share women's concerns.
- The planners hoped that this would forge bonds between residents, and regarded the innovation as an exciting experiment in socialist living.
- The commission has indeed sacrificed that power, planner Amit Ghosh later confirmed.
- The unholy triumvirate of developer, planner and architect had maimed it for ever in the sixties and seventies.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone whose job is designing things
someone whose job is to design new machines, furniture, clothes etc: · Designers at Ford say the car's soft shape is supposed to be attractive to women.fashion/furniture/software etc designer: · The show features clothes by famous fashion designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier.· Anyone with experience as a Web page designer can easily get a job.
someone whose job is to design buildings: · The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.· We're working with a team of architects on the plans for the new building.
someone who is responsible for planning something large such as a city, park, or large public building: · City planners have been working for years on a new design for the plaza.· Planners expect the new segment of the subway to carry as many as 3,000 people per day.
someone who plans something someone who works for a government or a company, and who plans how future situations and problems should be dealt with according to what they think is likely to happen: · The proposal will be carefully examined by a committee of executives, planners and consultants.financial/military/environmental etc planners: · Economic planners fear that there will be a 5% fall in real incomes next year.· a financial planner· Military planners and diplomats worry that the North's increasing distress over food supplies could provoke it to invade the South.
the person who originally thought of an important and successful plan, especially in politics or business: the architect of something: · Beveridge is usually thought of as the architect of the British National Health Service.· the chief architect of the election victory
a person who cleverly plans a complicated operation, especially in order to carry out a crime: · The court heard that it was Mrs Thompson who was the mastermind, not her husband.the mastermind behind/of something: · Andres is the mastermind behind a huge drug-smuggling operation.a criminal mastermind: · The film stars Morgan Freeman as a criminal mastermind.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY City planners are looking for ways to ease traffic. Many financial planners will help you shop for insurance.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
City planners are looking for ways to ease traffic. Many financial planners will help you shop for insurance.· Socialist central planners deliberately underpriced energy and other inputs.· No central planner need call, no taskmaster need coerce.· Not only will it survive, but the community will thrive far more than any community with central planners.· Adopting initial tariffs of even 100% would still be a bold reform; the implicit tariffs set by central planners approach infinity.
· The group, which includes about 600 financial planners from around the country, contends the confusion is not accidental.· Question: In this volatile market, what questions should I ask a financial planner I am considering using?· Many financial planners will help you shop for insurance.· But a person should consult with more than financial planners.· He will continue to work as a financial planner for Denver stock broker Dain Bosworth while he tries to make the team.· After we get the right financial planner working for us, we can put a comprehensive plan together.
· The planning application, submitted by East Hampshire District Council, was agreed by the local planners last week.· The planning application was given the go-ahead by local planners at East Hampshire District Council last week.· The need is for vigilance, by the local planners as well as by interested local people.· Permission was granted - for a one year period - by local planners last week.· The local planners considered the matter seriously, but in the end the officer's recommendation was rejected by the committee.· And local planners see little reason to oppose the plan ... Male speaker I can no reason on planning grounds to object.
· In practice, the choice was made on subjective grounds, reflecting the institutional preferences of military planners.
· Mr Roberts, a senior planner with Rhuddlan Borough Council, lives across the street.
· It remains to be seen whether the archaeologists will win out over the urban planners.· Traditional building materials tend to imply low-rise housing, and urban planners have an ambivalent attitude to low-rise.
NOUN· Equally modern was the initiation by Baroque city planners of systematic works of right-angle streets.· In the late I960s the city planners of Stuttgart tried to ease downtown traffic by adding a street.· All town and city planners aim to create a friendly environment by providing plants and trees.· One city planner said Escondido has become known as an incubator city.· Obviously, in a free economy city planners can not tell anyone what to build-only what not to build.· But Montana, the city planner who worked on the Hayes Valley redevelopment plan, said there were trade-offs.· During the 1960s, neighborhoods fought against the urban renewal schemes dreamed up by professional city planners.
· However, in order to answer such questions properly, curriculum planners need to address two other kinds of questions.· Discussion documents will be prepared in a form accessible to curriculum planners, tested and revised in the light of comments received.· Both case studies and policies will be published as a guide for curriculum planners.
· Thus, when I was an urban sociologist I read in sociology and in the professional journals of town planners.· A nice job for our town planners here.· Jonathan Madden is a would-be twentieth century folly builder who's been thwarted by town planners.· A number of professions are involved in all these areas; town planners, and surveyors, for example.· I also enjoy working with other professionals such as town planners and architects.· As well as being an architect, he is a chartered town planner, and is specially qualified in building conservation.· Agrippa was the son-in-law of Augustus and an eminent town planner.· There are many generations of qualified town planners who would have failed their examinations had they suggested such a thing.
WORD FAMILYnounplanplannerplanningadjectiveplanned ≠ unplannedverbplan
someone who plans and makes important decisions about something, especially someone whose job is to plan the way towns grow and developurban/city planner City planners are looking for ways to ease traffic. Many financial planners will help you shop for insurance.