strategem

NOUN

trick

Synonyms

WEAK

action angle artifice bit booby trap brainchild con deception device dodge feint gambit game game plan gimmick grift intrigue layout maneuver method pitch plan play plot ploy pretext proposition racket ruse scenario scene scheme setup shift slant stall story subterfuge switch twist wile

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They settled at Philadelphia and the boy was apprenticed to a chair-maker, but he soon broke away from that hum-drum employment, and in 1855, appeared in a minor part in "The Belle's Strategem."

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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