Ploy vs Circumvent - What's the difference?
ploy | circumvent |
A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.
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, title= (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
(military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
to avoid or get around something; to bypass
to surround or besiege
to outwit or outsmart
As verbs the difference between ploy and circumvent
is that ploy is (military) to form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision while circumvent is to avoid or get around something; to bypass.As a noun ploy
is a tactic, strategy, or gimmick.ploy
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Etymology 2
Probably abbreviated from deploy.Verb
(en verb)- (Wilhelm)