scheme

Noun
  1. An elaborate and systematic plan of action (synset 105913942)
    is a type of: plan of action - a plan for actively doing something
    subtypes:
    • contrivance, dodge, stratagem - an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
    • counterterrorism - a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism
    • game plan - (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport
    • game plan - (figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs
    • bubble, house of cards - a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
    • playbook - a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign
    • game, plot, secret plan - a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
    • pyramid scheme - a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in
    • waiting game - a strategy of delay
    • wheeze - (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
    • incentive program, incentive scheme - a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something
    same as: strategy
  2. A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery (synset 106769391)
    is a type of: falsehood, falsity, untruth - a false statement
    same as: dodge, dodging
  3. A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole (synset 108452398)
    "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
    is a type of: group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
    subtypes:
    • language system - a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language
    • judicatory, judicature, judicial system, judiciary - the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government
    • economic system, economy - the system of production and distribution and consumption
    • ecosystem - a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
    • social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure - the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
    • dragnet - a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals)
    • machinery - a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions
    • network, web - an interconnected system of things or people
    • nonlinear system - a system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree
    • subsystem - a system that is part of some larger system
    • organism - a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body
    • syntax - a systematic orderly arrangement
    • body - a collection of particulars considered as a system
    • shebang - an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'
    • solar system - the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field
    • water system - a river and all of its tributaries
    • root system, rootage - a developed system of roots
    has: hierarchy - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
    same as: system
  4. An internal representation of the world;
    An organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world (synset 105936599)
    is a type of: internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
    same as: schema
  5. A schematic or preliminary plan (synset 105900179)
    is a type of: plan, program, programme - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
    same as: outline, schema
Verb
  1. Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner (synset 200709785)
    is a type of: plot - plan secretly, usually something illegal
    same as: connive, intrigue
  2. Devise a system or form a scheme for (synset 200710205)
    is a type of: plan - make plans for something

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