design
If you have designs on someone, you want to start a relationship with them, even if they are in a relationship with somene else or do not seem interested in you. :
In the play a lecherous nobleman has designs on a young wife.
He realizes the young man has designs on his brother's wife.
Seedesign
I think Alan has designs on your job!
She denied having designs on the top job in the new department.
The administration has designs on certain territories for oil exploration.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Plans and arrangements
accommodation
appointed
arrangement
arranger
backstop
blueprint
counter-strategy
counter-tactic
design
done
exit strategy
non-programme
package deal
party line
plan of action
planning
policy
policy-maker
preparation
walk-in