ploy
Speech parts
1. ploy - Noun
2. ploy - Verb
Meaning
Sport; frolic.
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
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You might think the word "homemade” is just a word we use as a marketing ploy. But what you don't realize is that the staff sleeps here at night. If your tablecloth is wrinkled, that's why.
Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.