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   scheme

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   noun

   • 1. a large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining a particular object or putting a particular idea into effect: British "the occupational sick pay scheme" Similar planprojectplan of actionprogrammestrategystratagemgame planenterpriseventuremeasuremovecourse of actionline of actionsystemproceduredesignformularecipedevicetacticcontrivanceproposalpropositionsuggestionideablueprintinformal:wheezelurkarchaic:shift
   • ▪ a secret or underhand plan; a plot: "police uncovered a scheme to steal paintings worth more than $250,000" Similar plotintrigueconspiracysecret planruseploystratagemmanoeuvresubterfugemachinationsinformal:gameracketscamdodgeschlenter
   • ▪ a particular ordered system or arrangement: "a classical rhyme scheme" Similar arrangementsystemorganizationconfigurationpatternformatlayoutdispositiontechnical:schema
   • 2. an estate of social housing: informal Scottish "the whole scheme is plunged into darkness, bar the light in Victor's house"

   verb

   • 1. make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong: "envious of their wealth, he schemed to bring about their downfall"
   • ▪ think; suppose: informal South African "I scheme it could work"
   • 2. arrange according to a colour scheme: "she was busy arranging flowers, scheming the candles and napkins"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (denoting a figure of speech): from Latin schema, from Greek (see schema). An early sense was ‘diagram of the position of celestial objects’, giving rise to ‘diagram, outline’, whence the current senses. The unfavourable notion ‘plot’ arose in the mid 18th century.

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   What is the definition of a scheme?

   • The definition of a scheme, according to the case, encompasses not only a series of steps which together can be said to constitute a 'scheme' or a 'plan' but also (by its reference to 'action' in the singular) the taking of but one step. Their Honours said this about the definition.

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   What is the difference between a scheme and a project?

   • scheme stresses calculation of the end in view and may apply to a plan motivated by craftiness and self-interest. project often stresses imaginative scope and vision. Prosecutors said that workers in on the scheme would open the gates for trucks driven by their confederates, who loaded them up with raw copper and drove right back out.

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   What does scheme mean in a poem?

   • an ordered system or arrangement It is a poem with a rhyme scheme and a defined structure. (Scottish English, informal) an area of social housing (= houses or flats for people to rent or buy at low prices) I'm from Glasgow and grew up in a scheme. Word Origin mid 16th cent. (denoting a figure of speech): from Latin ‘form, figure’.

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   What does scheming mean?

   • A scheme is someone's plan for achieving something, especially something that will bring them some benefit. ...a quick money-making scheme to get us through the summer. If you say that people are scheming, you mean that they are making secret plans in order to gain something for themselves.

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   A scheme is an elaborate plan or plot. It's going to take a really solid scheme, probably involving teleportation or some sort of temporary cloning, to make an appearance at both parties at once.

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