wheeze

noun [C] (PLAN)

/wiːz/ UK old-fashioned informal

Definition

› a clever and often unusual idea or plan, especially one that is intended to achieve a profit or some other advantage: As a part of their latest marketing wheeze they've planted £50 notes in a number of the crisp packets. So the public actually pay to feed the animals in the zoo? That seems like a good wheeze. I've had a wheeze - why don't we put both kids in the small room and that will leave the back room free.Plotting and trappingPlanning, expecting and arrangingCheating and tricking

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