n. 25B6; noun
stage magicians practising legerdemain : SLEIGHT OF HAND, conjuring, magic, wizardry; formal prestidigitation; rare thaumaturgy.
a piece of management legerdemain : TRICKERY, cunning, artfulness, craftiness, chicanery, skulduggery, deceit, deception, artifice; Brit. informal jiggery-pokery.