Ploy and Strategy

Ploy

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

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Strategy and ploy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Strategy" instead a noun "Ploy".

Nearby Word: ployed

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

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Ploy and strategy are semantically related. You can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Strategy".

old	old ploy	old strategy
good	good ploy	good strategy
exact	exact ploy	exact strategy
elaborate	elaborate ploy	elaborate strategy
Other adjectives: particular, better, similar, typical, common, standard, simple, popular, effective, cunning, little, bad, main, clever, deliberate, political, final, classic, basic, defensive.

Mobile Shrubbery: The heroes adopt this strategy to sneak into the Red Bamboo base, aided by the additional ploy of bringing along a captive bird to release if anyone gets suspicious.

Source: Film / Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Subverted in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Jack drops a napkin minutes before using it as his exit strategy, making one wonder just how Indy Ploy he really is.

Source: Indy Ploy
Indy Ploy: When Tezzeret fights Renn, he has to make up his strategy on the fly - and he hates improvising.

Source: Literature / Test of Metal