n. 25B6; noun
adventurous fund-raising schemes : PLAN, project, plan of action, programme, strategy, stratagem, tactic, game plan, course/line of action; system, procedure, design, formula, recipe; Brit. informal wheeze; archaic shift.
police uncovered a scheme to steal the paintings : PLOT, intrigue, conspiracy; ruse, ploy, stratagem, manoeuvre, subterfuge; machinations; informal game, racket.
the sonnet's rhyme scheme : ARRANGEMENT, system, organization, configuration, pattern, format; technical schema.
25B6; verb he schemed to bring about the collapse of the government : PLOT, hatch a plot, conspire, intrigue, connive, manoeuvre, plan.