stratagemnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈstræt.ə.dʒəm/us/ˈstræt̬.ə.dʒəm/a carefully planned way of achieving or dealing with something, often involving a trick:
Her stratagem for dealing with her husband's infidelities was to ignore them.
He was a master of stratagem.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Plotting & trapping
- be in league with sb idiom
- cahoots
- catch sb out
- chicanery
- cloak-and-dagger
- conspiratorial
- conspire
- entrap
- entrapment
- hatch
- have a card up your sleeve idiom
- plot
- plotter
- pretext
- put-up job
- scheme
- set-up
- snare
- sting
- trap
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