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Ruse vs. Stratagem — What's the Difference?

Ruse vs. Stratagem — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ruse and Stratagem

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Ruse

A crafty stratagem; a subterfuge.

Stratagem

A scheme or maneuver designed to achieve an objective, as in surprising an enemy or deceiving someone.

Ruse

A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.

Stratagem

The devising or execution of such schemes or maneuvers
"This devious, insinuating creature, whose every word and movement seemed part of the spinning of some invisible net of stratagem" (Richard Adams).

Ruse

An action intended to deceive; a trick.
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Stratagem

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

Ruse

(uncountable) Cunning, guile, trickery.

Stratagem

Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.

Ruse

(intransitive) To deceive or trick using a ruse.

Stratagem

(uncountable) Military deception or artifice.

Ruse

Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.

Stratagem

(uncountable) Cunning and artifice in general.

Ruse

An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

Stratagem

(obsolete) A violent deed.

Ruse

A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

Stratagem

An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
Those oft are stratagems which error seem,Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Stratagem

A maneuver in a game or conversation

Stratagem

An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track

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