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Arranged vs Planned - What's the difference?

arranged | planned |

As verbs the difference between arranged and planned

is that arranged is past tense of arrange while planned is past tense of plan.

As an adjective planned is

existing or designed according to a plan.

arranged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (arrange)

  • arrange

    English

    Verb

    (arrang)
  • To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • To put in order, to organize.
  • To plan; to prepare in advance.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
  • (label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
  • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Derived terms

    * arrangement

    planned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (plan)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • existing or designed according to a plan
  • Antonyms

    * unplanned

    Derived terms

    * planned change * planned obsolescence * planned parenthood