The phrase "longterm plan" is not correct in standard written English; it should be "long-term plan." You can use it when discussing strategies or goals that are intended to be achieved over an extended period.
Example: "Our long-term plan is to expand our services to international markets within the next five years."
Alternatives: "strategic plan" or "future plan."
It won't be easy and it won't be quick, but we have a comprehensive longterm plan to make America safer.
"But we still face risks from the global economy so we should continue working through our longterm plan to build a resilient economy".
Conquering the internet, reinventing the book trade and becoming one of the world's richest men would be enough for most, but his longterm plan has always been something even grander: to establish a permanent human colony in space.
Coupled with family income growing by 3.3% in real terms over the last year and the smallest trade deficit since the late 1990s, this is further evidence that our longterm plan to secure the recovery has laid the foundations for a stronger economy.
Local officials say that the 197-room hotel, to be operated by Marriott Conference Centers, part of the Marriott hotel chain, will be a new anchor in their longterm plan to revive Trenton as a tourist destination and boost the economy of the city, whose industrial base has withered over the last few decades.
Who will do their best to resist any longterm plans?
The replacements have been impressive, but although Payton has always been projected as an everyday player, Agbayani and Mora were not in the Mets' longterm plans as starters.
Her longterm plans, she said, include finding the museum a permanent home, with a major research library, more educational facilities and, possibly, satellite locations around the United States.
But the release may be strategic: if you are an Occupy activist and see how your information is being sent to terrorism task forces and fusion centers, not to mention the "longterm plans" of some redacted group to shoot you, this document is quite the deterrent.
For Apple, the longterm planning clearly paid off.
