English > scheme: 7 senses > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | An elaborate and systematic plan of action. |
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| Synonym | strategy |
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| Narrower | contrivance, stratagem, dodge | An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived / contrived to deceive or evade |
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| counterterrorism | A strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism |
| game plan | (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport |
| game plan | (figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs |
| house of cards, bubble | A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control |
| incentive program, incentive scheme | A formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something |
| playbook | A scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign |
| plot, secret plan, game | A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) |
| pyramid scheme | A fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit |
| waiting game | A strategy of delay |
| wheeze | (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick |
| Broader | plan of action | A plan for actively doing something |
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| Spanish | estrategia, plan de acción, plan, táctica |
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| Catalan | estratègia, pla d'acció, pla, tàctica |
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English > scheme: 7 senses > noun 3, group| Meaning | A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole. |
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| Synonym | system |
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| Parts | hierarchy | A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system |
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| Narrower | body | A collection of particulars considered as a system |
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| dragnet | A system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals) |
| economy, economic system | The system of production and distribution and consumption |
| ecosystem | A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment |
| judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system | The system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government |
| language system | A system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language |
| machinery | A system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions |
| network, web | An interconnected / interconnected system of things or people |
| nonlinear system | A system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree |
| organism | A system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body |
| rootage, root system | A developed system of roots |
| shebang | An entire system |
| social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure | The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships |
| solar system | The sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field |
| subsystem | A system that is part of some larger system |
| syntax | A systematic orderly arrangement |
| water system | A river and all of its tributaries |
| Broader | group, grouping | Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
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| Spanish | esquema, sistema |
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| Catalan | sistema |
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