Device and Plan

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Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

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Plan is a synonym for device in ploy topic. In some cases you can use "Plan" instead a noun "Device", when it comes to topics like project.

Plan noun - A method worked out in advance for achieving some objective.

Usage example: there is a contingency plan in the office for handling almost any emergency

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Device is a synonym for plan in scheme topic. You can use "Device" instead a noun "Plan", if it concerns topics such as way.

Nearby Words: plant, planned, planed, planner, planing

old	old device	old plan
good	good device	good plan
special	special device	special plan
elaborate	elaborate device	elaborate plan
Other adjectives: similar, specific, complex, single, simple, actual, big, great, complicated, huge, dangerous, little, main, secret, new, latest.

He says the Inferno had a plan to destroy him, and handed each a handheld device with a single button that he implied was the product of said plan.

Source: Comic Book / Irredeemable
In the second film, he calls his plan the The Alan Parsons Project, the moon-attached death-ray the Death Star and his doomsday device in Goldmember is dubbed Preparation H.

Source: Giver of Lame Names
Hilariously enough, she eventually can't resist activating the device to uncover what the plan is.... only to find a recording of her past self berating her for nearly ruining the entire plan.

Source: Memory Gambit

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