scheme
noun OPAL W
/skiːm/
/skiːm/
Idioms - (British English) a plan or system for doing or organizing something
- a training scheme
- scheme for doing something a local scheme for recycling newspapers
- scheme to do something to introduce/operate a scheme to improve links between schools and industry
- under a scheme Under the new scheme only successful schools will be given extra funding.
- to introduce/launch/run a scheme
- a salary/insurance/loan scheme
- The houses have been demolished as part of a major regeneration scheme.
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessb2- The project is based on a successful pilot scheme in Glasgow.
- The scheme allows customers to trade in their own computer against the cost of a new one.
- Under the scheme, land would be sold to building companies.
- a government-backed scheme
- a scheme whereby the elderly will be provided with help in the home
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- major
- multi-million-pound
- ambitious
- …
- have
- come up with
- design
- …
- offer something
- provide something
- allow something
- …
- in a/the scheme
- under a/the scheme
- scheme for
- …
- a plan for getting money or some other advantage for yourself, especially one that involves cheating other people
- scheme to do something an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes
- They hatched a scheme to rob a Monte Carlo casino.
- scheme for doing something Is this another one of your crazy schemes for making money?
Extra Examples- Police uncovered a scheme to steal paintings worth more than $250 000.
- This is not one of those get-rich-quick schemes that you see on the internet.
- She's come up with a hare-brained scheme for getting her novel published.
- He has an ingenious scheme to attract funding.
- They concocted an elaborate fund-raising scheme.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crazy
- hare-brained
- elaborate
- …
- concoct
- devise
- dream up
- …
- involve something
- an ordered system or arrangement
- It is a poem with a rhyme scheme and a defined structure.
- (Scottish English, informal) an area of social housing (= houses or flats for people to rent or buy at low prices)
- I'm from Glasgow and grew up in a scheme.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a figure of speech): from Latin schema, from Greek skhēma ‘form, figure’. An early sense was ‘diagram of the position of celestial objects’, giving rise to ‘diagram, outline’, which led to the current senses. The unfavourable sense “plot” arose in the mid 18th cent.
Idioms
the/somebody’s scheme of things
- the way things seem to be organized; the way somebody wants everything to be organized
- My personal problems are not really important in the overall scheme of things.
- This small annoyance isn't much in the grand scheme of things.
- I don't think marriage figures in his scheme of things.