Usually means: Plan or system for achieving something.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word scheme:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. scheme: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scheme: Merriam-Webster
  3. scheme: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scheme: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scheme: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scheme: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scheme, scheme: Wordnik
  8. scheme: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Scheme, scheme: Wiktionary
  10. scheme: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scheme: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scheme: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scheme: Dictionary.com
  14. scheme (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scheme: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scheme (algebraic geometry), Scheme (disambiguation), Scheme (linguistics), Scheme (mathematics), Scheme (programming language), Scheme, The Scheme (TV series), The Scheme (band), The Scheme: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scheme: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scheme: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scheme: Rhymezone
  20. scheme: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scheme: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scheme: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. scheme: FreeDictionary.org
  24. scheme: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. scheme: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. scheme: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scheme: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Scheme (programming language), scheme: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scheme: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Scheme: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  3. scheme: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scheme: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scheme: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scheme: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. scheme: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scheme, scheme: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. scheme: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See schemed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
noun:  (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
noun:  A systematic plan of future action.
noun:  A plot or secret, devious plan.
noun:  An orderly combination of related parts.
noun:  A chart or diagram of a system or object.
noun:  (mathematics) A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
noun:  (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
noun:  (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
noun:  (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
verb:  (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan; to manuever.
verb:  (transitive) To plan; to contrive; to manuever.
noun:  A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.

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