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a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end<a scheme to fool people into volunteering for the cleanup of the park>— see trick 1
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a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful ends<a scheme to kidnap the President's daughter>— see plot 1
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a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective<a scheme to upgrade the cityʼs mass transit system>— see plan 1
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