The opposition party claimed that approving the bill by a vote late at night was a political ploy.
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Ploy
//plɔɪ//
Synonyms for "ploy" (113 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (34)
Related words (56)
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7 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
5 entriesderived
3 entriesetymologically related_to
3 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- маневра noun (strategy, tactic)
- трик noun (strategy, tactic)
Czech
4 entries- manévr noun (strategy, tactic)
- strategie noun (strategy, tactic)
- taktika noun (strategy, tactic)
- trik noun (strategy, tactic)
Dutch
3 entries- kunstgreep noun (strategy, tactic)
- strategie noun (strategy, tactic)
- tactiek noun (strategy, tactic)
French
4 entries- manigance noun (strategy, tactic)
- ruse noun (strategy, tactic)
- stratagème noun (strategy, tactic)
- stratégie noun (strategy, tactic)
German
4 entries- List noun (strategy, tactic)
- Manöver noun (strategy, tactic)
- Masche noun (strategy, tactic)
- Trick noun (strategy, tactic)
Greek
1 entries- τέχνασμα noun (strategy, tactic)
Korean
1 entries- 꼼수 noun (strategy, tactic)
Māori
4 entries- nuka noun (strategy, tactic)
- nuka noun (strategy, tactic)
- rauhanga noun (strategy, tactic)
- rauhanga noun (strategy, tactic)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- اورند noun (strategy, tactic)
- حیله noun (strategy, tactic)
Polish
1 entries- chwyt noun (strategy, tactic)
Portuguese
1 entries- estratagema noun (strategy, tactic)
Russian
1 entries- уло́вка noun (strategy, tactic)
Spanish
4 entries- complot noun (strategy, tactic)
- estrategia noun (strategy, tactic)
- truco noun (strategy, tactic)
- táctica noun (strategy, tactic)
Swedish
2 entries- knep noun (strategy, tactic)
- trick noun (strategy, tactic)
Turkish
1 entries- hile noun (strategy, tactic)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
His ploy almost succeeded.
Source: tatoeba (7265008)
Tom's ploy almost succeeded.
Source: tatoeba (7265009)
Her ploy almost succeeded.
Source: tatoeba (7265010)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.