Circumvention vs Stratagem - What's the difference?
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The act of evading by going around (bypassing).
The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
As nouns the difference between circumvention and stratagem
is that circumvention is the act of evading by going around (bypassing) while stratagem is a tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.circumvention
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(en noun)- A school in which he learns sly circumvention . --.
stratagem
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(en noun)- While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.