scheme
/ski:m/
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Definition
Noun:
- A systematic plan or arrangement: A structured design or method for organizing something.
- A secret or underhanded plan; a plot: A clever, often dishonest, plan to achieve a specific goal.
- An outline or diagram; a schematic: A simplified representation of a system or structure.
Verb:
- To make plans, especially in a secretive or underhanded way: To devise a plot or strategy, often with a connotation of deceit.
- To devise a systematic plan or arrangement: To design or organize according to a scheme.
Examples of Usage
Noun:
- The company introduced a new pension scheme for its employees.
- The police uncovered a scheme to defraud investors.
- The architect presented the color scheme for the building's interior.
Verb:
- They were caught scheming to take control of the company.
- The committee is scheming a new strategy for community outreach.
Advanced Usage
"In the grand scheme of things": When considering the larger, overall situation or perspective.
- Losing this one game isn't important in the grand scheme of things.
"To scheme against someone": To make secret plans to harm or outmaneuver a person.
- He suspected his rivals were scheming against him.
Variants and Related Words
Schemer (n): A person who engages in making secret and often dishonest plans.
- He was known as a cunning schemer in the business world.
Schematic (adj/n): (Adjective) Represented in simplified or symbolic form. (Noun) A diagram or plan.
- The engineer drew a schematic of the circuit board.
Synonyms
- Noun: Plan, plot, strategy, design, system.
- Verb: Plot, conspire, plan, devise, intrigue.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Scheme on (someone/something): (Informal) To be planning something, often mischievous or underhanded, regarding a person or thing.
- What are you scheming on now? I don't trust that look.
Related Idioms
- The best-laid schemes of mice and men (often go awry): A saying meaning that even the most carefully made plans can fail.
- We had everything prepared, but the best-laid schemes of mice and men... the weather ruined our event.
Noun
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
- a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action
Verb
- devise a system or form a scheme for
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner