schemer

schemer
[[t]ski͟ːmə(r)[/t]]
schemers
N-COUNT (disapproval)
If you refer to someone as a schemer, you mean that they make secret plans in order to get some benefit for themselves.

This is not to say we all want to turn into office schemers, thinking of nothing but our own advancement.

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  • Schemer — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Naomi Schemer (1930–2004), israelische Sängerin Stefan Schemer (* 1928), österreichischer Politiker (SPÖ) Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselb …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • schemer — UK US /ˈskiːmər/ noun [C] DISAPPROVING ► someone who makes clever secret plans intended to deceive people: »He is a schemer whose greed motivated him to hide the financial terms of the contract from his clients …   Financial and business terms

  • Schemer — Schem er, n. One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer. [1913 Webster] Schemers and confederates in guilt. Paley. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • schemer — index architect, coactor, conspirator, conspirer Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • schemer —    A priest in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man calls a boy ‘lazy little schemer’. It is likely that any agent noun of the ‘schemer’ type could be used as the headword in a vocative group …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • schemer — scheme ► NOUN 1) a systematic plan or arrangement for achieving a particular object or effect. 2) a secret or underhand plan; a plot. 3) a particular ordered system or pattern: a classical rhyme scheme. ► VERB 1) make plans in an underhand way;… …   English terms dictionary

  • Schemer - Shining Time Station — Schemer is a fictional character from the popular children s TV show Shining Time Station. He is portrayed by American actor Brian O Connor. He is true to his namesake and frequently plays jokes on other characters. He is the owner of the arcade… …   Wikipedia

  • schemer — noun see scheme II …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • schemer — See scheme. * * * …   Universalium

  • Schemer — noun A person who programs in Scheme …   Wiktionary

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