noun

• A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

  ‘the president has dismissed the referendum as a ploy to buy time’

  More example sentences

  • ‘It's a clever ploy and takes advantage of the natural courtesy of the public.’
  • ‘My opponent became increasingly frustrated by my beginner's luck and masterminded a cunning ploy to level the scores.’
  • ‘If you can get beyond the fact that there's all sorts of contrived controversy thrown into the TV show, and deliberate ploys to create situations that will boost ratings, the level of talent is really pretty amazing.’
  • ‘He's always full of games and little plans and ploys,’ said Watson.’
  • ‘He remains cool under pressure, and even his temper outbursts turn out to be mere ploys to gain advantage.’
  • ‘It was obviously a cunning ploy to secure column inches for a particular company.’
  • ‘We reckon it's nothing more than a cunning ploy to get more stuff written about the band.’
  • ‘She continues: ‘Again, marketing hype and ploys can at most sell the first book for you.’’
  • ‘Others have disguised price hikes in ingenious marketing ploys that give the ticket holder so-called " front-of-the-line " privileges for almost double the regular price.’
  • ‘And he said alcohol companies were introducing very sharp marketing ploys aimed at encouraging young people to consume drinks.’
  • ‘We sell art that people love and don't bother with all these marketing ploys about art as an investment.’
  • ‘He believed that the revisions made to the party were mere marketing ploys rather than the result of true ideological conversion.’
  • ‘This is a clever ploy to hook the booklovers after giving them the taste of the best of fiction reads.’
  • ‘If you want to make the most of your money, ignore all marketing ploys.’
  • ‘I condemn this Government for its cynical ploy to try to buy the votes of students.’
  • ‘Some seem to regard it as a kind of elitist ploy designed to make things difficult for the disadvantaged.’
  • ‘In fact, I knew Laras and what she was all about, her tricks and ploys to win people over.’
  • ‘Was it a ploy in their strategy for later deals of product endorsements?’

  Synonyms

  plan, scheme, tactic, manoeuvre, move, course of action, line of action, ploy, gambit, device, wile

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