Associations to the word «Stratagem»

Wiktionary

STRATAGEM, noun. A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.

Dictionary definition

STRATAGEM, noun. A maneuver in a game or conversation.
STRATAGEM, noun. An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King