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单词 ploy
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
ploy /plɔɪ/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. a maneuver, usually a trick, to gain an advantage;
    gambit.
See -ploy-.
-ploy-, root. 
    1. -ploy- comes from French and ultimately from Latin, where it has the meaning "bend;
      fold;
      use;
      involve.'' It is related to -plic-. This meaning is found in such words as: deploy, employ, employee, employer, employment, ploy.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
ploy  (ploi),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.

v.t. 
  1. Militaryto move (troops) from a line into a column. Cf. deploy. 

v.i. 
  1. Militaryto move from a line into a column.
  • Latin plicāre to fold, ply2; see deploy
  • Middle French ployer (French plier)
  • earlier ploye to bend 1475–85
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged tactic, ruse, subterfuge, wile, gambit.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
ploy /plɔɪ/ n
  1. a manoeuvre or tactic in a game, conversation, etc; stratagem; gambit
  2. any business, job, hobby, etc, with which one is occupied: angling is his latest ploy
  3. chiefly Brit a frolic, escapade, or practical joke
Etymology: 18th Century: originally Scot and northern English, perhaps from obsolete n sense of employ meaning an occupation
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