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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ploy /plɔɪ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a maneuver, usually a trick, to gain an advantage;
gambit.
See -ploy-.-ploy-, root. - -ploy- comes from French and ultimately from Latin, where it has the meaning "bend;
fold;
use;
involve.'' It is related to -plic-. This meaning is found in such words as: deploy, employ, employee, employer, employment, ploy.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ploy (ploi),USA pronunciation n. - a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
v.t. - Militaryto move (troops) from a line into a column. Cf. deploy.
v.i. - Militaryto move from a line into a column.
- Latin plicāre to fold, ply2; see deploy
- Middle French ployer (French plier)
- earlier ploye to bend 1475–85
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged tactic, ruse, subterfuge, wile, gambit.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: ploy /plɔɪ/ n - a manoeuvre or tactic in a game, conversation, etc; stratagem; gambit
- any business, job, hobby, etc, with which one is occupied: angling is his latest ploy
- chiefly Brit a frolic, escapade, or practical joke
Etymology: 18th Century: originally Scot and northern English, perhaps from obsolete n sense of employ meaning an occupation |