ruse

(rūs, rūz)
n.
A crafty stratagem; a subterfuge. See synonyms at wile.

[Middle English, detour, dodging, from Old French, from ruser, to drive back. See rush¹.]

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noun

An indirect, usually cunning means of gaining an end: artifice, deception, device, dodge, feint, gimmick, imposture, jig, maneuver, ploy, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile. Informal shenanigan, take-in. See honest/dishonest, means.

(DOD) In military deception, a trick of war designed to deceive the adversary, usually involving the deliberate exposure of false information to the adversary's intelligence collection system.

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• Pranks and Tricks - ruse: trick or subterfuge

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - list, kneb, finte

Nederlands (Dutch)
arglist, truck

Français (French)
n. - stratagème, subterfuge

Deutsch (German)
n. - List

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κόλπο, τέχνασμα, πανουργία

Italiano (Italian)
stratagemma

Português (Portuguese)
n. - ardil (m)

Русский (Russian)
уловка, ухищрение

Español (Spanish)
n. - astucia, treta, ardid

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - list, fint

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
策略, 诡计, 谋略

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 策略, 詭計, 謀略

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 책략, 계략

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 策略, 計略

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) خدعه, حيله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תחבולה, תכסיס‬

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