Associations to the word «Stratagem»

Wiktionary

STRATAGEM, noun. A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.

Dictionary definition

STRATAGEM, noun. A maneuver in a game or conversation.
STRATAGEM, noun. An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats