ploy
IPA: pɫˈɔɪ
noun
- A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
- (obsolete) Employment.
verb
- (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
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Examples of "ploy" in Sentences
- The ploy fails and she is fired.
- The ploy backfires and leads to divorce.
- The ploy works and the party becomes a success.
- The allied forces took the Japanese news as a ploy.
- The ploy works and Danny and Erica manage to escape.
- The phrase was for the most part of a marketing ploy.
- You experience the subtle nuances of life and its ploys.
- Some say the crime was a ploy to set the investigation in motion.
- The ploy failed, and Procter abandoned the idea of taking the fort.
- It gives the trolls yet another tool in their ploys to disrupt the project.
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