PLOY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of ploy in English
Examples of ploy
ploy
But the success of this ploy is only partial.
Narratives are seen, then, both as rhetorical ploys (disguising genuine selves) and as the very thing that guarantees our ability to have selves.
The ploy , of course, backfires because although such a strategy may build up wealth it does so at the expense of a man's honour.
What was once a respectable culture is now just viewed as a marketing ploy .
One of the common ploys of the girl-group repertory is a game of musical leapfrog.
The reverse side of the poster is another marketing ploy .
The conventional spellings of these words have been simplified or altered to create a visual novelty effect or enhance an attention-getting ploy .
But without allocating increased resources to controlling unregulated movement into the towns, such ploys were unlikely to be effective.
If this was her ploy , it was successful.
It is a standard rhetorical ploy to attribute one's ideas to someone respected who can lend weight to the controversial proposal.
But the consistent focus of the magazine suggests that the perilous state of men is more than a rhetorical ploy .
Consequently, the discourse on urban conditions within the academy has been tainted by the failure of this ideological ploy by the profession.
It would have been a better negotiating ploy than the one actually used.
This is nothing if not original, and it is an arresting ploy .
The ploy may have helped, but not much.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Translations of ploy
in Chinese (Traditional)
計謀，策略, 手法，花招…
in Chinese (Simplified)
计谋，策略, 手法，花招…
in Spanish
treta, estratagema, truco [masculine…
in Portuguese
artimanha, truque [masculine]…
in Turkish
in French
in Japanese
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
in Russian
ayak oyunu, manevra, numara…
stratagème [masculine], stratagème, passe-temps…
chwyt, sztuczka, zadanie…
die List, die Angelegenheit…
triks [neuter], strategi, knep…
Need a translator?
Get a quick, free translation!
{{#randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}}
{{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}}
{{^randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}}
{{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}}
said when you tell someone, or agree with someone, to keep something a secret
About this
{{#displayLoginPopup}}
{{/displayLoginPopup}}
{{#displayClassicSurvey}}
{{/displayClassicSurvey}}
