open plan
noun
a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.
Compare
closed plan.
Origin of open plan
First recorded in 1935–40
OTHER WORDS FROM open plan
o·pen-plan, adjectiveWords nearby open plan
Example sentences from the Web for open-plan
Found that people who were sent from traditional offices to open-plan offices “were significantly less satisfied.”
P.J. on the Owl-Monkey Project and the Science of Chick Flicks |P. J. O’Rourke |April 6, 2014 |DAILY BEASTI remember him walking past my desk in the open-plan office a few weeks later, saying hi to everyone except me.
Randi Zuckerberg: How I Learned to Balance Business and Creativity |Randi Zuckerberg |November 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST“Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted,” Cain wrote.
Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine Explores Creativity for Capitalists |Casey Schwartz |March 15, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for open-plan
open-plan
adjective
having no or few dividing walls between areas
an open-plan office floor