Usually means: Strategic maneuver to gain advantage.
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  1. ploy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ploy: Merriam-Webster
  3. ploy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ploy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ploy: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Ploy, ploy: Wordnik
  8. ploy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ploy: Wiktionary
  10. ploy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ploy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ploy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ploy, ploy: Dictionary.com
  14. ploy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ploy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ploy (board game), Ploy (musical instrument), Ploy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ploy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ploy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ploy: Rhymezone
  20. ploy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ploy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ploy: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (ploy)

▸ noun:  A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
▸ noun:  (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Employment.
▸ verb:  (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

Similar:
stratagem, gambit, train, forset, shift, trick, trick of the trade, liftout, pander, trant, more...

Opposite:
countermeasure, antithesis

Types:
deception, trick, scheme, con, more...

Phrases:
Trollope ploy, poker ploy, court ploy, ploy against a goalie, deceptive ploy, more...

Adjectives:
political, clever, common, rhetorical, deliberate, old, obvious, favorite, tactical, cynical, public


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Similar:
stratagem, gambit, train, forset, shift, trick, trick of the trade, liftout, pander, trant, more...

Opposite:
countermeasure, antithesis

Types:
deception, trick, scheme, con, more...

Phrases:
Trollope ploy, poker ploy, court ploy, ploy against a goalie, deceptive ploy, chess ploy, nfl defensive ploy, smart ploy, ploy to, underhanded ploy, more...

Adjectives:
political, clever, common, rhetorical, deliberate, old, obvious, favorite, tactical, cynical, public



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