ploys in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for ploys in the English»French Dictionary

ploy [Brit plɔɪ, Am plɔɪ] N

ploy

stratagème m

it is a ploy to attract attention/to disarm his critics

c'est un stratagème pour attirer l'attention/pour désarmer ses détracteurs

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negotiating ploy, position

de négociation

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subterfuge

ploy, subterfuge uncountable

user de subterfuges

to use subterfuge ou all sorts of ploys

les artifices d'un grand séducteur

the ploys of a great charmer

ploys in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for ploys in the English»French Dictionary

ploy [plɔɪ] N

ploy

ruse f

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manœuvre

ploy

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Further ploys to help tour companies chalk up those bookings include free meals and offers of four nights for the price of three.

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He dislikes strategists, calling their methods deceitful and cowardly, and generally abhors strategies or ploys involving elusive and immoral tactics.

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But many of these ploys come off as tactless money-grubbing.

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He stated that the term had been co-opted as a marketing term, and that members of Generation X were relatively resistant to marketing ploys.

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At this time, most of his colleagues refused to treat hysteric patients, believing their symptoms to be ploys for attention.

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They are dismissed as propaganda ploys or signs of weakness.

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Some do their best to resolve complaints; others use legal gimmicks, the silent treatment and similar ploys to rebuff dissatisfied customers.

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