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Gambit vs Machination - What's the difference?

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Gambit is a related term of machination.


As nouns the difference between gambit and machination

is that gambit is gambit, a form of opening a chess game while machination is a clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.

gambit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An opening in chess, in which a minor piece (often a pawn) is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
    • Her clever opening gambit gave her an advantage.
  • Any ploy or stratagem.
    • Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit .
  • A remark intended to open a conversation.

    • machination

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.
  • The act of machinating or plotting.

    • Related terms

    * machinal * machinate

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