stratagem

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
2. (countable, uncountable) Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.
3. (uncountable) Military deception or artifice.
4. (uncountable) Cunning and artifice in general.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A violent deed.

Sinonieme

trick

artifice

scheme

ruse

deception

plot

plan

strategy

tactics

finesse

wile

maneuver

device

ploy

trickery

deceit

gambit

means

wiles

contrivance

craft

subterfuge

cunning

procedure

dodge

tactic

manoeuvre

fraud

expedient

artfulness

chicane

chicanery

hoax

pretence

project

secret

㊙️

sham

skill

tricks

design

method

perfidy

pettifogging

frame-up

fetch

feint

policy

art

🎨

traitorousness

quibbling

Vertalings

stratagème

stratagemma

List

ruse

estratagema

στρατήγημα

list

solution

slimmigheid

Trick

Ränke

kneep

Kniff

Intrige

espediente

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈstɹæt.ə.d͡ʒəm/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: stratageme

In summary

From Middle English stratageme, from Old French stratageme, from Latin strategema, from Ancient Greek στρατήγημα (stratḗgēma, “the act of a general, a piece of generalship”), from στρατηγέω (stratēgéō, “to be a general, command an army”), from στρατηγός (stratēgós, “a general, the leader or commander of an army”). See strategy.