Ploy vs Contrivance - What's the difference?
ploy | contrivance | Related terms |
A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.
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(military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
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something overly artful or artificial
Ploy is a related term of contrivance.
As nouns the difference between ploy and contrivance
is that ploy is a tactic, strategy, or gimmick while contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.As a verb ploy
is (military) to form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.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)
Antonyms
* deploy (Webster 1913)Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
