scheme
/skim/ n [C]Definition
› a plan for doing or organizing something: The committee came up with a creative fundraising scheme. The yellow and white color scheme brightened up the kitchen. › A scheme is also a secret and dishonest plan: [+ to infinitive] They devised a scheme to defraud the government of millions of dollars.
(Definition of scheme n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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