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scheme
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an elaborate and systematic plan of action
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Other meanings
2. noun
a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
3. noun
a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
4. noun
an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
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