ploy
plaw i
- n an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
- n a maneuver in a game or conversation
- But Bennett's main theme is that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was only "a ploy" designed to keep as many slaves in bondage as possible until Lincoln could build support for .
- The ploy used to work, but now the phone sits silent.
- The use of respectable fronts and legitimate businesses is a time-honored Mafia ploy, and according to police, Barnes learned that trick and many others from the late Brooklyn .