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ploy
[ploi] 
–noun
| 1. | a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage. |
–verb (used with object)
| 2. | Military Archaic. to move (troops) from a line into a column. Compare deploy. |
–verb (used without object)
| 3. | Military Archaic. to move from a line into a column. |
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| ploy (ploi) n. An action calculated to frustrate an opponent or gain an advantage indirectly or deviously; a maneuver: "A typical ploy is to feign illness, procure medicine, then sell it on the black market" (Jill Smolowe). [Perhaps from employ, employment (obsolete).] |
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Ploy
Ploy\, n. Sport; frolic. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]Ploy
Ploy\, v. i. [Prob. abbrev. fr. deploy.] (Mil.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy. --Wilhelm.
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Language Translation for : ploy
Spanish:
truco, estratagema,
German:
die List,
Japanese:
策
ploy
1722, "anything with which one amuses oneself," Scottish and northern England dialect, possibly a shortened form of employ or deploy. Popularized in the sense "move or gambit made to gain advantage" by British humorist Stephen Potter (1900-1969).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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