ploy

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /plɔɪ/

Noun

ploy

1. A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.

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

2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
3. (obsolete) Employment.

Translations

• French: truc, stratégie, tactique
• German: Trick, List, Masche
• Portuguese: estratagema
• Russian: уло́вка
• Spanish: táctica, estrategia, truco

Verb

ploy (ploys, present participle ploying; past and past participle ployed)

1. (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

Antonyms

• deploy

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