ploy.
A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
Meaning & usage
A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
The free T-shirt is really a ploy to get you inside to see their sales pitch.
Sport; frolic.
Employment.
Where this word comes from
Possibly from a shortened form of employ or deploy. Or from earlier ploye, from Middle English, borrowed from Middle French ployer (compare modern plier), from Latin plicāre.
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
Where this word comes from
Probably abbreviated from deploy.
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