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schemes

SKEEMZ/skiːmz/

2 meanings of schemes

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  1. 1
    noun
    Plural of scheme. Use it for more than one plan or secret plot.

    The police caught the men behind several schemes to cheat old people out of their savings.

    The city tried many schemes to fix the traffic, but none of them worked.

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  2. 2
    verb
    Third-person singular present of scheme. Use it after he, she, or it.

    He schemes all day to get out of doing his chores.

    In the story, a hungry fox schemes to steal the farmer's chickens.

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schemes is a form of scheme

scheme, noun: A secret plan to do something sneaky or dishonest. Full entry

Forms
schemeschemes plural
Spelling
scheme → schemes: add -s
Sound
The ending sounds like /z/.

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