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scheme NOUN /SKEEM/
What does it mean?
  1. a pictorial sketch or outline
  2. a brief statement in an outline, table, or list
  3. a plan or program of action; especially
  4. a sly or secret one
  5. a regular or organized design
How do you use it?

"In this hatching of their scheme, neither Trent nor Quilp had had one thought about the happiness or misery of poor innocent Nell." (Charles Dickens, _The Old Curiosity Shop_)

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