Ploy

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created by Webster 1913
(idea) by Hyperspace (8.1 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Mon Sep 24 2001 at 4:13:09
An action calculated to frustrate an opponent or gain an advantage indirectly or deviously; a maneuver: "A typical ploy is to feign illness, procure medicine, then sell it on the black market" (Jill Smolowe).
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:04:36

Ploy (?), n.

Sport; frolic.

[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

 

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Ploy, v. i. [Prob. abbrev. fr. deploy.] Mil.

To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.

Wilhelm.

 

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