Usually means: Plans or strategies for achieving goals.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word schemes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. schemes: Merriam-Webster
  2. schemes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. schemes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scheme's, Schemes, scheme's, schemes: Wordnik
  5. schemes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. schemes: Wiktionary
  7. schemes: Dictionary.com
  8. schemes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. schemes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. schemes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. schemes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. schemes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. schemes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. schemes: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Scheme)

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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