plan of action - a plan for actively doing something

dodge, stratagem, contrivance - an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"

counterterrorism - a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism

game plan - (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport

game plan - (figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs; "newscasters speculated about the President's game plan for an invasion"

house of cards, bubble - a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble"

playbook - a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition"

plot, secret plan, game - a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"

pyramid scheme - a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in

waiting game - a strategy of delay

wheeze - (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick; "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat"

incentive program, incentive scheme - a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something

false statement, falsehood, untruth, falsity - a false statement

group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

language system - a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language

judicatory, judicial system, judiciary, judicature - the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government

economic system, economy - the system of production and distribution and consumption

ecosystem - a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment

hierarchy - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"

social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure - the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"

dragnet - a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals); "caught in the police dragnet"

machinery - a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"

network, web - an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth"

nonlinear system - a system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree

subsystem - a system that is part of some larger system

organism - a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body; "the social organism"

syntax - a systematic orderly arrangement

body - a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"

shebang - an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'

solar system - the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field

water system - a river and all of its tributaries

root system, rootage - a developed system of roots

internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image

plan, program, programme - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue"

plot - plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the overthrow fo the government"

plan - make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his family"