"game plan" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the strategies used in sports.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "game plans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "game plan (plural game plans)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "So what is the game plan? We need to get everyone out of this alive, and I am clueless.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 March 28, Phil McNulty, “Albania 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Southgate's decision to select two defensively-minded midfield men once more in Declan Rice and Kalvin Phillips was another strong indicator that this will be his preferred formation at the Euros this summer.\nIt is a game plan which has looked stodgy on occasions, particularly in two Uefa Nations League games against Denmark, a goalless draw in Copenhagen and a defeat at Wembley, and leaves Southgate open to accusations of over-caution.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any strategy devised to reach a given objective."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "strategy",
          "strategy"
        ],
        [
          "objective",
          "objective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Any strategy devised to reach a given objective."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "strategy",
          "tags": [
            "in-plural",
            "sometimes"
          ],
          "word": "suunnitelma"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "strategy",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "stratégie"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "strategy",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "plan d’action"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "strategy",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "plan gry"
        },
        {
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "ettugaḍa",
          "sense": "strategy",
          "word": "ఎత్తుగడ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  "word": "game plan"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From the strategies used in sports.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "game plans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "So what is the game plan? We need to get everyone out of this alive, and I am clueless.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 March 28, Phil McNulty, “Albania 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Southgate's decision to select two defensively-minded midfield men once more in Declan Rice and Kalvin Phillips was another strong indicator that this will be his preferred formation at the Euros this summer.\nIt is a game plan which has looked stodgy on occasions, particularly in two Uefa Nations League games against Denmark, a goalless draw in Copenhagen and a defeat at Wembley, and leaves Southgate open to accusations of over-caution.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any strategy devised to reach a given objective."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "strategy",
          "strategy"
        ],
        [
          "objective",
          "objective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Any strategy devised to reach a given objective."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "strategy",
      "tags": [
        "in-plural",
        "sometimes"
      ],
      "word": "suunnitelma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "strategy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stratégie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "strategy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plan d’action"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "strategy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plan gry"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "ettugaḍa",
      "sense": "strategy",
      "word": "ఎత్తుగడ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "game plan"
}