Usually means: Strategies used to gain advantage.
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  1. ploys: Merriam-Webster
  2. ploys: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ploys: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ploys, ploys: Wordnik
  5. ploys: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ploys: Wiktionary
  7. ploys: Dictionary.com
  8. ploys: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. ploys: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ploys: Legal dictionary

(Note: See ploy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ploy)

noun:  A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
noun:  (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
noun:  (obsolete) Employment.
verb:  (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
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