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| 1. | [ noun ] an elaborate and systematic plan of action | |
| Synonyms: | strategy | |
| Related terms: | plan_of_action plot contrivance game_plan pyramid_scheme house_of_cards incentive_program playbook counterterrorism wheeze waiting_game game_plan | |
| 2. | [ noun ] a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | |
| Synonyms: | dodging dodge | |
| Related terms: | falsehood hedge | |
| 3. | [ verb ] form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | |
| Synonyms: | connive intrigue | |
| Related terms: | plot connivance | |
| 4. | [ noun ] a schematic or preliminary plan | |
| Synonyms: | outline schema | |
| Related terms: | plan draft | |
| 5. | [ noun ] an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | |
| Synonyms: | schema | |
| Related terms: | representation schematize schematise | |
| 6. | [ noun ] a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | |
| Synonyms: | system | |
| Examples: | "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" |
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| Related terms: | group body network economy solar_system subsystem machinery social_organization syntax dragnet nonlinear_system water_system organism ecosystem judiciary shebang language_system root_system hierarchy | |
| 7. | [ verb ] devise a system or form a scheme for | |
| Related terms: | plan outline | |
| Similar spelling: |
scene schema scum scam scone sachem |
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