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US
/ˈskim/
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[ UK /skˈiːm/ ]
[ UK /skˈiːm/ ]
NOUN
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- a schematic or preliminary plan
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a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going - an elaborate and systematic plan of action
VERB
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- devise a system or form a scheme for
How To Use scheme In A Sentence
- In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
- There wasn't a lot of information there; I had to expand on it, invent the colour scheme.
- The company has invested a great deal of time and effort in setting up new training schemes.
- I don't think it would go down very well and would be seen as another arty-farty scheme.
- It will also make changes to the research and development tax credits schemes by redefining them to make them easier to claim.
- The livestock scheme is run on commercial lines rather than donations. Times, Sunday Times
- Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
- Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.
- This scheme enables you to budget the cost through fixed monthly payments.
- The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!