noun
1 plan for getting an advantage, etc. for yourself
ADJECTIVE
▪ crazy , hare-brained
▪
She's come up with a hare-brained ~ for getting her novel published.
▪ elaborate
▪ get-rich-quick , moneymaking
▪
This is not one of those get-rich-quick ~s that you see on the Internet.
▪ money-laundering , Ponzi ( AmE ), pyramid
▪ devious , diabolical , evil , fraudulent , nefarious
VERB + SCHEME
▪ concoct , devise , dream up , hatch
▪
He concocted a ~ to steal 1.9 million shares.
▪ propose
▪ crack , foil , thwart , uncover
SCHEME + VERB
▪ involve sth
2 way sth is designed or organized
ADJECTIVE
▪ colour/color , decorating ( AmE ), lighting , paint
▪ rhyme
▪
The poem's rhyme ~, which Dante invented, is known as ‘terza rima’.
▪ classification , labelling/labeling , naming , numbering
▪ conceptual , organizational , regulatory
VERB + SCHEME
▪ design
▪ choose
PHRASES
▪ in the grand ~ of things , in the great ~ of things , in the overall ~ of things
▪
In the grand ~ of things, one missing page doesn't matter.
3 ( BrE ) plan for doing sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ major , multi-million-pound
▪ ambitious , grandiose
▪ controversial
▪ imaginative , ingenious , innovative
▪ successful
▪ compulsory , voluntary
▪ proposed
▪ pilot
▪
The project is based on a successful pilot ~ in Glasgow.
▪ incentive , insurance , pension , recycling , share , statutory , training
VERB + SCHEME
▪ have
▪
He has an ingenious ~ to attract funding.
▪ come up with , design , devise , draw up , plan , prepare , propose
▪ oppose , support
▪ approve , reject
▪ announce
▪ establish , initiate , introduce , launch , organize , pilot , set up , start
▪
The government set up a ~ of limited public health assistance in 1992.
▪ administer , adopt , carry out , implement , operate , run
▪ back , finance , fund
▪
a government-backed ~
▪ be in , join , participate in , take part in
▪ use
▪ abolish , wind up
SCHEME + VERB
▪ offer sth , provide sth
▪ allow sth , enable sth
▪
The ~ allows customers to trade in their own computer against the cost of a new one.
▪ aim to , be aimed at sth , be designed for sth , be designed to do sth , involve sth
▪
a ~ involving local libraries
▪ be based on
▪ apply to sth , cover sth
▪
The ~ applies to families with three or more children.
▪ go ahead , proceed
▪
The ~ has been given approval to go ahead.
▪ come into effect , come into force
▪ succeed , work
▪ collapse , fail
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~
▪
Schools in the ~ will receive an annual grant.
▪ under a/the ~
▪
Under the ~, land would be sold to building companies.
▪ ~ for
▪
a training ~ for unemployed teenagers
▪ ~ whereby
▪
a ~ whereby the elderly will be provided with help in the home