ploy

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
2. Sport; frolic.
3. (obsolete) Employment.

Verb

To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

Concepts

stratagème

stratégie

tactique

gambit

truc

escroquerie

fausseté

manigance

supercherie

duperie

fallace

fourbe

fourberie

ruse

tromperie

Synonymes

trick

stratagem

gambit

ruse

artifice

scheme

tactics

strategy

intrigue

plot

contrivance

wangle

flourish

fraud

frolic

game

handling

hitch

hoax

hobby

hook

🪝

humbug

imposition

imposture

jugglery

plan

ring

💍

rink

scam

shenanigan

shrewd

snag

squiggle

storyline

subterfuge

swindle

tactic

treachery

trickery

plot line

riding school

secret plan

hokey-pokey

management

policy

strategies

catch

cheating

con

deceit

deception

delusion

device

dodge

dupery

escapade

finesse

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/plɔɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Possibly from a shortened form of employ or deploy. Or from earlier ploye, from Middle English, borrowed from Middle French ployer (compare modern plier), from Latin plicāre.