simple past tense and past participle of ploy

plural of ploy

A tactic, strategy, or scheme. / (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic. / (obsolete) Employment.

(military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

present participle of ploy

A negotiation technique in which a proposal from another party is deliberately misinterpreted in such a way that it is more to the responding party's liking, with the aim of having the misinterpreted version accepted in the interests of diplomacy.

plural of Trollope ploy

A scheme or ploy made to attract a larger audience for usually mass media, like radio, television or digital streaming.