scheme

scheme
1 noun (C)
1 BrE an official plan that is intended to help people in some way, for example by providing education or training: a government training scheme for the unemployed | a pension scheme
2 a clever plan, especially to do something bad or illegal: another one of his dumb schemes for making money
3 a system that you use to organize information, ideas etc: classification scheme | colour scheme (=the way the colours have been organized in a room)
4 be in the scheme of things to be part of the way things generally happen, or are organized: It was seen as a medium-sized company in the general scheme of things.
2 verb (I) to secretly make clever and dishonest plans to get or achieve something: scheme to do sth: He spent the next two years bitterly scheming to get his revenge. | scheme against sb: She became convinced that her family was scheming against her. — schemer noun (C)

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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