Collocations for "scheme"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "scheme" in context.
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scheme
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [pay, patient, contribution, pension] scheme
- a [cunning, clever, fair, new, practical] scheme
- a [fraudulent, pyramid, get-rich-quick] scheme
- an [innovative, excellent, affiliate] scheme
- UK: a children's play scheme
- police [discovered, uncovered] a scheme to steal [the paintings, gold]
- [introduce, design, develop. implement] a scheme
- a scheme to [reduce, boost, improve, create, save]
- a scheme to get [rich, famous, known]
- is always looking for the next (big) scheme
- a [pleasing, bright, depressing] color scheme
- a [successful, failing] marketing scheme
- under the [current, present, proposed] scheme
- not bad, in the [grand, great, overall] scheme of things
- quite [small, good, trivial] in the scheme of things
- scheme against the [politicians, government, company]
- scheme to [provide, get, make, uncover, drive, bring, find]
- scheme with the [examiners, authorities]
- scheme and [plot, plan, lie, conspire, dream]
- scheming his [vengeance, revenge, escape]
- scheming for [control, power]
- scheming to [overthrow, oust, replace]
- scheme a way to [avoid, get, obtain]
- the [children, students, criminals, crooks] schemed
'scheme' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
associate
- awry
- color
- comment
- con
- conception
- cook
- crafty
- cranky
- dark
- decoy
- devise
- dodgy
- drawback
- effect
- elaborate
- envisage
- evil
- foil
- grandfather
- loyal
- lukewarm
- luxury
- mad
- marking
- moot
- multiple
- newly
- noxious
- oppose
- party
- pension
- pilot
- pit
- prey
- prison
- resistance
- reward
- rich
- sketch
- snub
- sort
- sum
- tax
- trivial
- uncover
- undone
- wacky
- wind
- witness