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Ploy

//plɔɪ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tactic, strategy, or scheme. countable, uncountable

    "Near-synonyms: ruse, stratagem"

  2. 2
    a maneuver in a game or conversation wordnet
  3. 3
    Sport; frolic. Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
  4. 4
    an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker wordnet
  5. 5
    Employment. countable, obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

    "Troops drawn up so as to show an extended front, with slight depth, are said to be deployed; when the depth is considerable and the front comparatively small, they are said to be in ployed formation."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Possibly from a shortened form of employ or deploy. Or from earlier ploye, from Middle English, borrowed from Middle French ployer (compare modern plier), from Latin plicāre.

Etymology 2

Probably abbreviated from deploy.

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