transcription, транскрипция: [ ski:m ]
( schemes, scheming, schemed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A scheme is a plan or arrangement involving many people which is made by a government or other organization. ( mainly BRIT; in AM, use program )
...schemes to help combat unemployment.
...a private pension scheme...
N-COUNT : oft N to-inf , n N
2.
A scheme is someone’s plan for achieving something.
...a quick money-making scheme to get us through the summer...
N-COUNT : oft N to-inf , N for -ing
3.
If you say that people are scheming , you mean that they are making secret plans in order to gain something for themselves.
Everyone’s always scheming and plotting...
The bride’s family were scheming to prevent a wedding...
They claimed that their opponents were scheming against them...
You’re a scheming little devil, aren’t you?
VERB : oft cont , V , V to-inf , V against n , V-ing [ disapproval ]
• schem‧ing
...their favourite pastimes of scheming and gossiping.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
see also colour scheme , pension scheme
5.
When people talk about the scheme of things or the grand scheme of things , they are referring to the way that everything in the world seems to be organized.
We realize that we are infinitely small within the scheme of things.
PHRASE