Ploy

Quick meaning: Ploy is a noun meaning A tactic, strategy, or scheme.

Meaning

A tactic, strategy, or scheme.

More Meanings

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
2. (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
3. (obsolete) Employment.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: ruse, stratagem, device

The free T-shirt is really a ploy to get you inside to see their sales pitch.

Troops drawn up so as to show an extended front, with slight depth, are said to be deployed; when the depth is considerable and the front comparatively small, they are said to be in ployed formation.

'Bide here,' he says, 'and boil the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me.' And there was that in his face, as he spoke, which chilled the wildest, and left them well content to keep to the good claret and the saft seat, and let the daft laird go his own ways.

Word Forms

• ploys
• ploying
• ployed

Synonyms for ploy

Depending on context, synonyms include ruse, stratagem, device, gambit.

Antonyms for ploy

Common opposites include deploy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stratagem, gambit, tactic, scheme, show, expedient.

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