Estratagema in english
Stratagem
pronunciation: strætədʒəm part of speech: noun
pronunciation: strætədʒəm part of speech: noun
In gestures
estratagema = course of action ; stratagem ; ruse ; ploy ; artifice ; power play ; scheme ; stalking horse ; trick ; gaff ; smoke and mirrors ; gambit ; dodging.
Example: Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.Example: Must she fortify herself with an arsenal of stratagems in order to survive?.Example: The library did not burn and the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library as a replacement was a ruse to help pay the former President's debts.Example: They are using such ploys as citing budget cuts as the reason for making government information more expensive.Example: Such canons need not transcend human artifice to be of enduring significance.Example: The author offers a detailed overview of how Congress came to pass the USA Patriot Act and some of the power plays that took place behind the scenes.Example: These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.Example: Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.Example: But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.Example: There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.Example: The truth is that the government has relied for years on smoke and mirrors to create the illusion of sound finances in the face of a serious budget deficit.Example: She's not only the most hated person in America, she's also appears to be pushing her luck with her latest gambit.Example: Thanks to his dodgings, half-truths and failure to comply with the law, he squandered a big victory as the city's first elected official of Haitian descent.more:
» estratagema comercial = marketing ploy .
Example: I wonder if Ms. Williams' sugar-coated Cuban tour was a marketing ploy by the Cuban government as an attempt to gain US sympathy.» estratagema de marketing = marketing ploy .
Example: I wonder if Ms. Williams' sugar-coated Cuban tour was a marketing ploy by the Cuban government as an attempt to gain US sympathy.» estratagema para guardar las apariencias = face-saving .
Example: We have come to think of face-saving as indicating a certain phase of the so-called inferiority complex -- a sense of hidden weakness.» estratagema para mantener las apariencias = face-saving .
Example: We have come to think of face-saving as indicating a certain phase of the so-called inferiority complex -- a sense of hidden weakness.