Swindle vs Stratagem - What's the difference?
swindle | stratagem | Related terms |
To defraud (someone).
To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
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/]:
Swindle is a related term of stratagem.
As nouns the difference between swindle and stratagem
is that swindle is an instance of while stratagem is a tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.As a verb swindle
is to defraud (someone).swindle
English
Verb
(swindl)- ''The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.
Synonyms
* (to be swindled) be sold a pup * (to defraud) swizz (informal, mainly British)Synonyms
* scheme, swizz (informal, mainly British)Anagrams
*stratagem
English
Noun
(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.
