Usually means: Strategies designed to deceive others.
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  1. ruses: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ruses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ruse's, Ruses, ruses: Wordnik
  5. ruses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ruses: Wiktionary
  7. ruses: Dictionary.com
  8. ruses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. ruses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Ruse)

noun:  (countable, often hunting, archaic, rare) A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
noun:  (countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick.
noun:  (uncountable) Cunning, guile, trickery.
verb:  (intransitive) To deceive or trick using a ruse.
verb:  (intransitive, hunting, archaic, rare) Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.
noun:  A city in northeastern Bulgaria.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A suburb in the City of Campbelltown, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named after James Ruse.
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