ploy
noun/plɔɪ/
/plɔɪ/
- words or actions that are carefully planned to get an advantage over somebody else synonym manoeuvre
- a clever marketing ploy
- ploy to do something It was all a ploy to distract attention from his real aims.
- ploy for doing something a ploy for deflecting criticism
Extra Examples- Don't take any notice of her—it's just a ploy.
- It was a deliberate ploy to smear his opponents.
- Maybe it's a ploy to throw us off our guard.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clever
- effective
- good
- …
- resort to
- try
- devise
- …
- work
- ploy for
Word Originlate 17th cent. (originally Scots and northern English in the sense ‘pastime’): of unknown origin. The notion of “a calculated plan” dates from the 1950s.Definitions on the go
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