Five-Year Plan

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(fīv′yēr′)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
Five′-Year Plan′  (fīv′yēr′),USA pronunciation (sometimes l.c.)
  1. Governmentany plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, esp. as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • origin, originally probably as translation of Russian pyatilétka 1925–30

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Five-Year Plan
  1. (formerly in socialist economies) a government plan for economic development over a period of five years
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