- scheme
- [[t]ski͟ːm[/t]]
♦♦schemes, scheming, schemed1) N-COUNT: oft N to-inf, n N A scheme is a plan or arrangement involving many people which is made by a government or other organization. [mainly BRIT]
...schemes to help combat unemployment.
...a private pension scheme...
The company was pouring around $30 million into the scheme.
Syn:(in AM, use program)2) N-COUNT: oft N to-inf, N for -ing A scheme is someone's plan for achieving something....a quick money-making scheme to get us through the summer...
They would first have to work out some scheme for getting the treasure out...
Tourists can be vulnerable to scams and con schemes of all kinds.
Syn:3) VERB: oft cont (disapproval) If you say that people are scheming, you mean that they are making secret plans in order to gain something for themselves.Everyone's always scheming and plotting...
[V to-inf] The bride's family were scheming to prevent a wedding...
[V against n] They claimed that their opponents were scheming against them...
[V-ing] You're a scheming little devil, aren't you?
Syn:Derived words:scheming N-UNCOUNT...their favourite pastimes of scheming and gossiping.
4) → See also colour scheme5) PHRASE: poss PHR Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.He did not quite know how to place women in his scheme of things.
6) PHRASE When people talk about the scheme of things or the grand scheme of things , they are referring to the way that everything in the world seems to be organized.We realize that we are infinitely small within the scheme of things.
English dictionary. 2008.
