English-Thai Dictionary

ploy

N วิธีการ  แผน  wi-te-kan

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PLOY

PLOY Ploy, n.

 

Defn: Sport; frolic. [Prov. Eng. & Scot. ]

 

PLOY

Ploy, v. i. Etym: [Prob. abbrev. fr. deploy. ] (Mil. )

 

Defn: To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy. Wilhelm.

 

PLOYMENT

PLOYMENT Ploy "ment, n. (Mil. )

 

Defn: The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ploy

ploy |ploi plɔɪ | ▶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. ORIGIN late 17th cent. (originally Scots and northern English in the senses ‘pastime, ’ ‘escapade, ’ and ‘a trick ’): of unknown origin. The notion of ‘a calculated plan ’ dates from the 1950s.

 

Oxford Dictionary

ploy

ploy |plɔɪ | ▶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. • an activity done for amusement: the eternal cross-stitch I was set to do before I could indulge my own ploys. ORIGIN late 17th cent. (originally Scots and northern English in the sense ‘pastime ’): of unknown origin. The notion of ‘a calculated plan ’ dates from the 1950s.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

ploy

ploy noun perhaps this had been a ploy to revive her husband's fading interest: ruse, tactic, move, device, stratagem, scheme, trick, gambit, plan, maneuver, dodge, subterfuge, wile.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

ploy

ploy noun perhaps this had been a ploy to revive her husband's fading interest. See stratagem.

 

French Dictionary

ployer

ployer v. tr. verbe transitif littéraire Plier. : Le pommier ploie sous le poids de ses branches chargées de fruits. SYNONYME courber . Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec le verbe plier, incliner, fléchir. employer Conjugaison Le y se change en i devant un e muet. Il ploie, il ploiera.Le y est suivi d ’un i à la première et à la deuxième personne du pluriel de l ’indicatif imparfait et du subjonctif présent. (Que ) nous ployions, (que ) vous ployiez.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ploy

ploy /plɔɪ /名詞 複 ～s C (だますための )策略, 手 .