stratagem
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈstɹæt.ə.dʒəm/
stratagem (plural stratagems)
- A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
- 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
- While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
- 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
- French: stratagème
- German: Kriegslist, Strategem (elevated), Stratagem (elevated)
- Italian: stratagemma, tattica, schema
- Portuguese: estratagema, maquinação
- Russian: уло́вка
- Spanish: estratagema
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