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scheme

noun

1 adventurous fundraising schemes:

plan, project, plan of action, programme, strategy, stratagem, game plan;

enterprise, venture, measure, move, course of action, line of action;

system, procedure, design, formula, recipe;

device, tactic, contrivance;

proposal, proposition, suggestion, idea, blueprint;

British, informal wheeze;

Australian, informal lurk;

archaic shift.

2 police uncovered a scheme to steal paintings worth more than $250,000:

plot, intrigue, conspiracy, secret plan;

ruse, ploy, stratagem, manoeuvre, subterfuge;

machinations;

informal game, racket, scam, dodge;

South African, informal schlenter.

3 the sonnet's rhyme scheme:

arrangement, system, organization, configuration, pattern, format, layout, disposition;

technical schema.

verb

he schemed to bring about the collapse of the government:

plot, hatch a plot, conspire, take part in a conspiracy, intrigue, connive, manoeuvre, plan, lay plans;

rare machinate, cabal, complot.

scheme Oxford Dictionary of English