Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Master plan and device are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Master plan" instead a noun "Device".
Master plan
Master plan noun - A method worked out in advance for achieving some objective.
Usage example: my neighbor assured me that the wisdom of his master plan for his yard would be apparent once everything was finished
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Device and master plan are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Device" instead a noun phrase "Master plan".
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- Also, the molecular expander machine that the aliens came here to get Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The alien's master plan is to dig up a device that makes them two stories tall.
Source: Film / Aliens in the Attic - In The Daleks' Master Plan, the Doctor realizes that Daxtar is a traitor because he knows that the Daleks' doomsday device requires a core of taranium even though the Doctor never mentioned it.
Source: I Never Said It Was Poison -
Crazy Enough to Work: If you pick the route that makes no sense (getting the arming device to the superweapon, then going straight to the enemy commander to be inevitably captured) no one believes Reynardo would be that stupid, and all wrap themselves in knots trying to figure out his master plan.
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