ploy — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

1. A tactic, strategy, or scheme.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   rusestratagemdevice

   Ví dụ

   Near-synonyms: ruse, stratagem, device

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

   Thêm ví dụ (2)

   '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.

   Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

2. Sport; frolic.

   Cách dùng

   • Scotland
   • cách dùng ở Anh
   • đếm được
   • dialectal
   • không đếm được

3. Employment.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • không còn dùng
   • không đếm được

Động từ

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

   Từ trái nghĩa

   deploy

   Từ liên quan

   ployment

   Ví dụ

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   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.

Danh từ

1. an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   gambit

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   remarkcommentinput

2. a maneuver in a game or conversation

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   gambitstratagem

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   maneuvermanoeuvretactical maneuvertactical manoeuvre