Ploy Definition

ploi
ploys
noun
ploys
An action or maneuver intended to outwit or disconcert another person.
Webster's New World

A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.

The free t-shirt is really a ploy to get you in the door to see their sales pitch.
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.

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verb

(military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

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Other Word Forms of Ploy

Noun

Singular:
ploy
Plural:
ploys

Origin of Ploy

  • Perhaps from employ employment (obsolete)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Probably abbreviated from deploy.

    From Wiktionary

Ploy Sentence Examples

  • I hadn't told him of our miss information ploy to Ethel Reagan.

  • It was all a ploy to get the ranch, and Bordeaux was right in the middle.

  • Was it a ploy to gain her trust?

  • Was he serious, or was this yet another ploy?

  • Obviously that was merely a ploy.

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Words Starting With

PPLPLO

Words Ending With

YOYLOY

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ploy

Words Starting With P and Ending With Y

Starts With P & Ends With YStarts With PL & Ends With YStarts With P & Ends With OY

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With P4 Letter Words Ending With Y