| CARVIEW |
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A scheme or maneuver designed to achieve an objective, as in surprising an enemy or deceiving someone. synonym: wile.
- noun The devising or execution of such schemes or maneuvers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artifice in war; a plan or scheme for deceiving an enemy.
- noun Any artifice; a trick by which some advantage is intended to be obtained.
- noun Synonyms and
- noun Artifice, Manæuver. Trick, etc. See
artifice . - noun Deception, plot, trap, device, snare, dodge, contrivance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A deceptive
tactic designed to gainthe upper hand . Typically, involvesunderhanded dealings andobfuscation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- noun a maneuver in a game or conversation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word stratagem.
Examples
-
Can regulators distinguish this kind of stratagem from the case of fair and justified engineering decisions that happen to cause a little temporary jitter?
-
If this adjustment in stratagem saved the lives or mission of just one crew, I would be thankful to God.
-
The famous Duguesclin is said to have taken the town by stratagem from the English.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
-
The word "Strategy" is a military term derives from the Greek word "stratagem" which means
-
The stratagem is related by the author of the Gesta Francorum, the monk Robert Baldric, and Raymond des
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
-
Our 'stratagem' -- I have always liked the word, ever since I read _Tales of a Grandfather_, which I thought a great take-in, as it's just a history book, neither more nor less, and the only exciting part is when you come upon stratagems -- succeeded.
Peterkin Mrs. Molesworth 1880
-
It's a typical Carter stratagem, which is nothing less than a view of the world where musical lines, like individual lives, intersect at changing speeds in endlessly changing contexts and sometimes, maybe only for a moment, come together.
-
It's a typical Carter stratagem, which is nothing less than a view of the world where musical lines, like individual lives, intersect at changing speeds in endlessly changing contexts and sometimes, maybe only for a moment, come together.
-
To move from theory toward the concrete, for years in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, I've seen Anglo social workers go after certain Chicano families — do so as agents of county officials who have discovered that such a stratagem is a damn good way to intimidate activist Chicano migrants.
In Loco Parentis Liszka, Jakob 1978
-
The stratagem is a good one, and I dare say some hundreds of men will be added to the encamped army, while certain unconscious diplomatists are sipping their coffee, and complacently gazing at these fiery devices.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
Related Words
synonyms (151)
Words with the same meaning
- action
- ad hoc measure
- alibi
- answer
- apology
- art
- artful dodge
- artifice
- bag of tricks
- blind
- bluff
- bosey
- cabal
- catch
- chicanery
- chouse
- cloak
- collusion
- color
- complicity
- complot
- confederacy
- connivance
- conspiracy
- contrivance
- contriving
- countermove
- counterplot
- coup
- course of action
- cover
- cover story
- cover-up
- covin
- craft
- curve
- curve-ball
- cute trick
- deceit
- deep-laid plot
- demarche
- design
- device
- dirty deal
- dirty trick
- dodge
- effort
- engineering
- excuse
- expedient
- facade
- fakement
- fast deal
- feint
- fetch
- ficelle
- finagling
- finesse
- frame-up
- front
- gambit
- game
- gimmick
- gloss
- googly
- grift
- guise
- handle
- hocus-pocus
- improvisation
- intrigue
- joker
- juggle
- jugglery
- jury-rig
- jury-rigged expedient
- knavery
- lame excuse
- last expedient
- last resort
- last shift
- little game
- locus standi
- lure
- machination
- makeshift
- maneuver
- maneuvering
- manipulation
- mask
- means
- measure
- move
- ostensible motive
- pass
- pis aller
- plan
- play
- plot
- plotting
- ploy
- poor excuse
- pretense
- pretension
- pretext
- protestation
- public motive
- put-off
- racket
- red herring
- refuge
- resort
- resource
- rigging
- ruse
- scheme
- schemery
- scheming
- screen
- scurvy trick
- semblance
- shake-up
- sham
- shift
- show
- sleight
- sleight of hand
- sleight-of-hand trick
- smoke screen
- solution
- stalking-horse
- step
- stopgap
- strategy
- stroke
- stroke of policy
- subterfuge
- tactic
- temporary expedient
- trick
- trickery
- trump
- underplot
- varnish
- veil
- web of intrigue
- wile
- wily device
- wire-pulling
- working hypothesis
- working proposition
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.