long-term plan
Extended goal roadmap
A long-term plan is a strategy designed to achieve goals over an extended period—typically years rather than weeks or months.
It emphasizes sustained effort and delayed payoffs over immediate results: Her long-term plan was to save enough to buy a house by forty.
Long-term plans often require periodic revision as circumstances change.
- strategyPlanned approach to goals
- visionAbility to see
- big pictureOverall perspective on things
- roadmapDetailed plan forward
- goalsIntended end results
future · future self · blueprint · ambition · trajectory · foresight · investment · nest egg · legacy · horizon · decade · retirement · savings · exit strategy · career · foundation · milestones · patience
- strategystrategy, grand strategy, tactics, tactic, tactical
- chesscheck, pawns, knights, rooks, pawn
- local governmentcity manager, aldermen, city hall, councillors, councillor
long-term planshort-term plan
Temporary course of action
short-term thinking · quick fix · stopgap · band-aid solution
long-term planquick fix
Hasty temporary solution
snap decision · impulse · knee-jerk reaction · improvisation · winging it
long-term planband-aid solution
Superficial fix masking deeper problems
temporary fix · holding action · emergency measure · expedient · kicking the can down the road
long, longer, longest, length, lengthen, lengthy, elongate, elongation, prolong