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

evasion

deceptiveness

hidden motive

seek

🔍

sellout

ingenious device

shenanigan

shift

false pretence

sophism

sophistry

deceitfulness

crafty

subversiveness

swindles

tact

craftiness

cheating

technique

tip

treachery

treason

cheat

betrayal

false pretense

astuteness

artful

fraud in fact

manoeuver

military leader’s fan

wrestling umpire’s fan

positive fraud

imposture

indirection

intrigue

gyp

maneuvering

generalship

fraudulence

Vertalings

stratagème

List

ruse

estratagema

list

Kniff

kneep

Intrige

Ränke

Trick

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.