S: (n) contrivance, stratagem, dodge (an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade) "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
S: (n) game plan ((sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport)
S: (n) game plan ((figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs) "newscasters speculated about the President's game plan for an invasion"
S: (n) house of cards, bubble (a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control) "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble"
S: (n) playbook (a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign) "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition"
S: (n) plot, secret plan, game (a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)) "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
S: (n) pyramid scheme (a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in)
W: (adj) strategic [Related to: strategy] (relating to or concerned with strategy) "strategic weapon"; "the islands are of strategic importance"; "strategic considerations"
W: (adj) strategical [Related to: strategy] (relating to or concerned with strategy) "strategic weapon"; "the islands are of strategic importance"; "strategic considerations"