words or actions that are carefully planned to get an advantage over somebody else synonym manoeuvre计谋;策略;手法;花招 a clever marketing ploy 机智的销售策略 - ploy to do something
It was all a ploy to distract attention from his real aims. 那全是障眼法,借以转移对他真实目的的注意。 - ploy for doing something
a ploy for deflecting criticism 转移批评的策略
Extra ExamplesDon't take any notice of her—it's just a ploy. 不要理会她——这只是一种策略。 It was a deliberate ploy to smear his opponents. 这是故意诽谤他的对手的策略。 Maybe it's a ploy to throw us off our guard. 也许这是一个让我们放松警惕的策略。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clever
- effective
- good
- …
- resort to
- try
- devise
- …
- work
- ploy for
Word Originlate 17th cent. (originally Scots and northern English in the sense ‘pastime’): of unknown origin. The notion of “a calculated plan” dates from the 1950s.