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Exact Match:

stratagem

Synonyms:

• action,
• ad hoc measure,
• alibi,
• answer,
• apology,
• art,
• artful dodge,
• artifice,
• bag of tricks,
• blind,
• bluff,
• bosey,
• cabal,
• catch,
• chicanery,
• chouse,
• cloak,
• collusion,
• color,
• complicity,
• complot,
• confederacy,
• connivance,
• conspiracy,
• contrivance,
• contriving,
• countermove,
• counterplot,
• coup,
• course of action,
• cover,
• cover story,
• cover-up,
• covin,
• craft,
• curve,
• curve-ball,
• cute trick,
• deceit,
• deep-laid plot,
• demarche,
• design,
• device,
• dirty deal,
• dirty trick,
• dodge,
• effort,
• engineering,
• excuse,
• expedient,
• facade,
• fakement,
• fast deal,
• feint,
• fetch,
• ficelle,
• finagling,
• finesse,
• frame-up,
• front,
• gambit,
• game,
• gimmick,
• gloss,
• googly,
• grift,
• guise,
• handle,
• hocus-pocus,
• improvisation,
• intrigue,
• joker,
• juggle,
• jugglery,
• jury-rig,
• jury-rigged expedient,
• knavery,
• lame excuse,
• last expedient,
• last resort,
• last shift,
• little game,
• locus standi,
• lure,
• machination,
• makeshift,
• maneuver,
• maneuvering,
• manipulation,
• mask,
• means,
• measure,
• move,
• ostensible motive,
• pass,
• pis aller,
• plan,
• play,
• plot,
• plotting,
• ploy,
• poor excuse,
• pretense,
• pretension,
• pretext,
• protestation,
• public motive,
• put-off,
• racket,
• red herring,
• refuge,
• resort,
• resource,
• rigging,
• ruse,
• scheme,
• schemery,
• scheming,
• screen,
• scurvy trick,
• semblance,
• shake-up,
• sham,
• shift,
• show,
• sleight,
• sleight of hand,
• sleight-of-hand trick,
• smoke screen,
• solution,
• stalking-horse,
• step,
• stopgap,
• strategy,
• stroke,
• stroke of policy,
• subterfuge,
• tactic,
• temporary expedient,
• trick,
• trickery,
• trump,
• underplot,
• varnish,
• veil,
• web of intrigue,
• wile,
• wily device,
• wire-pulling,
• working hypothesis,
• working proposition