fra: ruse

Information
has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/fra/ruse

Meaning
means	(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) guile, chicane, wile, trickery, shenanigan, chicanery
means	(noun) any clever maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen" twist, device, gimmick
means	(noun) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) ruse, artifice
means	(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way slickness, trickery, skullduggery, skulduggery, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, hanky panky
means	(noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation gambit, stratagem, ploy
means	(noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) shrewdness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness, astuteness
means	(noun) the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage artfulness
means	(noun) a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it" trick, fast one