Plan
Upgrade
Upgrade verb - To move higher in rank or position.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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So Much for Stealth: After the Alpha Team gets the upgrade, they plan to sneak into the fuel mine.
Source: Toys / Hero Factory - Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket was actually a Lampshade Hanging of this trope, showing why one midseason upgrade never happened (the original plan was that the Alex was to be sent to Amuro for the final battle of the One Year War.)
Source: Mid-Season Upgrade - Another example would be Vetinari's great Undertaking, a plan to upgrade the city's infrastructure to run off the perpetual-motion Device that the Watch confiscated from the dark dwarfs in Thud!!.
Source: Terminally Dependent Society
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Upgrade and Plan. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plan/upgrade
Plan & Upgrade. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/plan/upgrade>.
Upgrade or Plan. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plan/upgrade.
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