scheme

[skiːm]

Definition:
1. A plan or system for doing or organizing something.
2. An elaborate and systematic plan of action.
3. A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery.

Use 'scheme' in a sentence:

1. Termites do not have an architect's blueprint or a grand construction scheme.
2. This is another half-baked scheme that isn't going to work.
3. The scheme has the chairman's seal of approval.
4. They invented some lamebrain scheme to get rich quick.
5. I don't want to be associated with your scheme; I'm contracting out.
6. What do you scheme?
7. A scheme has been roughed out but it has yet to be discussed and amended.
8. The scheme is now under deliberation.
9. The scheme will cost in the region of six million pounds.
10. The politicians simply flitted from one madcap scheme to another.
11. The scheme was good for the prisoners because it brought them outside into the community.
12. My personal problems are not really important in the overall scheme of things .
13. It's another of his schemes to get rich quick.
14. The Youth Training Scheme was operative by the end of 1983.
15. The company was pouring around$ 30 million into the scheme.
16. This may just be another of her schemes to make me look small.
17. Although her parents were insured by Thailand's Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme, this scheme only covers dependents up to the age of 20.
18. There's lots of money about these days for schemes like this.
19. Such schemes mean little unless they impact on people.
20. How does the scheme work?
21. He must have cooked up his scheme on the spur of the moment.
22. A phantom trading scheme at a Wall Street investment bank went unnoticed for three years.
23. He has devised a scheme for making money.
24. He cannot reveal how much money is involved in the scheme.
25. The scheme has been set up to help homeless people.
26. Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs.
27. Our scheme died aborning.
28. The new scheme will run off with a lot of the taxpayer's money.
29. Such a scheme is workable.
30. The scheme has been revised in accordance with the opinions of the masses.
31. A new training scheme to help the long-term unemployed is expected.
32. What a crazy scheme, and I use that term advisedly.
33. Their new colour scheme is hideous!
34. The scheme will overpay some lawyers and underpay others.
35. A new colour scheme will transform your bedroom.
36. His company has the best pension scheme in the industry.
37. "Do you think he'll come?" "I scheme so."
38. Most British migrants miss council housing, the National Health scheme, and their relatives and former neighbors.
39. Lay your heads together and see if you can think out a scheme.
40. This isn't the first harebrained scheme he's had.
41. Critics of the scheme take a less benign view.
42. The investigators have uncovered paperwork that ties the suspect to the money laundering scheme.
43. The advantages of the scheme far outweighed the disadvantages.
44. The government is pushing ahead a new scheme for clean energy.
45. They would first have to work out some scheme for getting the treasure out.
46. I can't help feeling that this may just be another of her schemes.
47. He did not quite know how to place women in his scheme of things.
48. Leaving aside the cost of the scheme, let us examine its benefits.
49. We devised a scheme to help him.
50. The water-cooling scheme will reduce the system's carbon footprint by up to 85 percent.
51. I don't think marriage figures in his scheme of things.
52. The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.
53. We realize that we are infinitely small within the scheme of things.
54. They swore in the signpainter's boy, told him the scheme, and asked his help.
55. These are simply make-work schemes for accountants.
56. However, the scheme is certain to meet opposition from fishermen's leaders.
57. Under the new scheme only successful schools will be given extra funding.
58. Savings schemes are the best retail investment products on offer.
59. My personal problems are not really important in the overall scheme of things.
60. The government has twice declined to back the scheme.