How to pronounce “ploy”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
• (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
• (obsolete) Employment.
• [Verb]
• (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.

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