The phrase "a plan to avert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or measures intended to prevent something undesirable from happening.
Example: "The government has developed a plan to avert a potential economic crisis."
Alternatives: "a strategy to prevent" or "a scheme to avoid".
Does the Secret Service have a plan to avert this?
Douglas Frantz (NYT) GERMANY: PENSION REFORM -- The government is pursuing a plan to avert bankruptcy of the pension system.
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN, it is said, whiled away the time while orchestrating a plan to avert the financial crisis of 1907 by steadfastly playing solitaire.
We need not idly sit by while our planet suffers permanent damage: Oliver Morton (Op-Ed, Nov. 17) suggests a plan to avert one casualty of global warming.
The European Union also believes it has settled the main elements of a plan to avert future debt crises by strengthening the rule book for the euro, called the Stability and Growth Pact.
Just before midnight on Monday, when the government began to grind to a halt, House Democratic leaders expressed little optimism that Republicans would come to the bargaining table with a plan to avert or quickly end a government shutdown.
Democrats say any plan to avert the crisis must include a combination of tax increases on the rich and spending cuts.
But after initially scoffing at the lack of detail, investors turned euphoric over the prospect that Europe might be moving toward a formal plan to avert a default.
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush appealed to the United States on Wednesday night to support a $700 billion plan to avert a financial meltdown on Wall Street, and he invited both major presidential candidates to join him and Congressional leaders at the White House on Thursday to forge a bipartisan compromise.
But with no deal in sight for a spending plan to avert a government shutdown, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) warned Tuesday that votes could occur Friday and through the weekend.
The German chancellor expressed solidarity with the Irish government in a visit to Dublin on Thursday and urged the UK to present a viable plan to avert crashing out of the EU next week.
