• first cast, rough sketch
• long-range plan, long-range planning, long-term plan, long-term planning
• the financial scheme crashed disastrously
• to calculate, to design, to draft, to engineer, to frame, to intend, to lay, laid, to meditate, to plan, to project, to propose, to purpose, to scheme
• according to plan, methodically
• to project, to project a plan
• to put a plan into action