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Meaning scheme meaning

What does scheme mean?
Definitions in simple English

scheme Noun

— A scheme is a plan, sometimes a bad or dishonest one. The new training scheme will be targeted at recent graduates. Employees still participate in the company's pension scheme during the duration of their break. The management had various schemes to control the workers. The color scheme for the bedroom is blue and white.

scheme

— noun an elaborate and systematic plan of action — verb (= intrigue) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner — noun (= dodge) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery — verb devise a system or form a scheme for — noun (= schema) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world — noun (= system) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going — noun (= outline) a schematic or preliminary plan

Synonyms scheme synonyms

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scheme English » English

plan plot project design program diagram stratagem intrigue system schema device conspire trick outline pattern map intention idea chart strategy model drawing sketch schedule programme devise conspiracy proposal picture manoeuvre maneuver layout contrive connive plane method machination graph figure draft contrivance conception blueprint attempt policy ploy means machinate intend image

Topics scheme topics

What do people use scheme to talk about?
Work and occupation Work Method

Plan
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Cheat
States Quality Light

Color

Conjugation scheme conjugation

How do you conjugate scheme?

scheme · verb

Examples scheme examples

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Simple sentences

His scheme went wrong in the end.
There is a scheme to expand the company.
Under no circumstances can the scheme be put into practice.
The poem's rhyme scheme is highly complex.
The whole thing turned out to be a Ponzi scheme.
Your scheme is like a house built on the sand.
What if the scheme doesn't work out?
The main feature of this scheme is still ambiguous.
Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.
He carried out the scheme faithfully.
To the best of my knowledge, he wasn't involved in that fraud scheme.
As far as I know, he wasn't involved in that fraud scheme.
It was an intricate scheme to defraud the rightful heirs.
It's not a pyramid scheme.
What do you think of this color scheme?
Tom is very interested in this scheme.

Movie subtitles

Uh. It was the only rhyme scheme I could remember, and I'm half-Irish, so.
The scheme is approved by many.
Well, I made a drawing of the whole place showing the hills. It's a built-up scheme, without cutting down the hill or having it get in the way.
I made the hill fit in with the architectural scheme.
I love the color scheme.
That isn't a scheme. It's a conspiracy.
I bet they've got some scheme on that'll make you do things you don' t approve of if you don't look out.
I finally figured out their scheme.
I must commend Your Highness for the subtlety of your scheme.
No. It's a pet scheme of mine.
Holmes, I understand that the recovery of the original would make it impossible for the thieves to sell any copies however excellent those copies were, but did you have any clue to the identity of the mastermind behind the whole scheme?
Well, now, confidentially, it's a scheme.
To put through a scheme for graft?
What's your scheme?
And as such, I'm privy to every single conversation that used me as a conduit, meaning that of course I know everything there is to know about the Emperor's scheme.
I mean, after all, you were the one who said we had to thwart the Emperor's scheme.
Somebody swiped my scheme, eh?
With your husband arriving sick and wondering just how you were going to fit into the scheme of things here.
Theres a scheme of things.
I've got a great scheme.
It is all part of the dastardly scheme.
Do you like the color scheme?
I don't want to call the police, but I know your whole scheme.
We have a scheme.
The corn assistance scheme has also been suspended.
It's a built-up scheme, without cutting down the hill or having it get in the way.
I love the color scheme. That isn't a scheme.
I've come up with a scheme for you to see Irma.
They always have a little scheme.
We spent the 2 weeks working out a reasonable scheme. and learned it by heart for the 2nd-dozen slots.
My, how tanned you've gotten, V.S. I didn't allow for that in the color scheme.
It's a pet scheme of mine.
What's your scheme, Hildy?

News and current affairs

To be sure, Bernie Madoff may yet be proved right, and his will not turn out to be the biggest Ponzi scheme ever.
But, in addition to being fair, this scheme also has practical benefits.
While the regulatory mechanisms of both Kyoto and the European Trading Scheme have contributed to the establishment of an emerging market for carbon trading, interested parties are now concerned about the immediate future.
On the contrary, they are now the government's partners in a joint venture to manage this dishonest scheme.
The first explicit scheme was introduced in America after the Great Depression and initially seemed an unmitigated success.
But the scheme was criticized for allowing employers to pay below-subsistence wages, because the taxpayer would make up the difference.
Both free-market and socialist thinkers have long advocated implementing a basic-income scheme.
As to Fiat, Berlusconi's government failed to put forward a Thatcherite scheme aimed at bringing in foreign capital to salvage both it and other declining industrial enterprises.
In fact, putting up a wind turbine cuts no extra CO2, because total emissions are already capped under the EU-wide carbon-trading scheme.
In other words, a global cash-transfer scheme could be very effective, and would be feasible if donor countries pooled their aid budgets.
The Great Leap Forward had aspects of a Ponzi scheme, an investment fraud which attempts to draw in successive rounds of investors through word-of-mouth tales of outsize returns.
He appears to have been worried, like the manager of a Ponzi scheme, that any hint of doubt could cause the whole movement to crash.
This scheme wouldn't solve all of Asia's problems.
Of course, the language that he used to sell his scheme to the Chinese was very different from the words his father used to present his plans to Hitler.
Nor did the Hamiltonian scheme of federal finance guarantee a peaceful commonwealth.
Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh.
At the beginning of this year, Europe introduced a new Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme that uses market-based incentives to control carbon emissions.
Yeltsin once spoke about his scheme to link two centrists.
To make the scheme counter-cyclical, the SDR issues could be callable in tranches when the global economy overheats.
We are running a large-scale, nontransparent, and dangerous government subsidy scheme for the benefit primarily of a very few, extremely wealthy people.
Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh. But few financial professionals have been fooled.
This differs fundamentally from Singapore's scheme, since employers are not required to do so, and, while enrolled employees' paychecks are deducted without their consent, they can drop out of the plan at their own request.

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