Definitions For Scheme

noun

• A schematic or preliminary plan
• An elaborate and systematic plan of action
• An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
• A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
• A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
• A clever and often dishonest plan to do or get something
• An official plan or program of action
• The way that something is arranged or organized

verb

• Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
• Devise a system or form a scheme for
• To make plans to do or get something in a secret and often dishonest way