Usually means: Deceptions or tricks; legal subterfuge.
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  1. chicaneries: Merriam-Webster
  2. chicaneries: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chicaneries: Vocabulary.com
  4. chicaneries: Wordnik
  5. chicaneries: Wiktionary
  6. chicaneries: Dictionary.com
  7. chicaneries: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chicaneries: Legal dictionary

(Note: See chicanery as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chicanery)

noun:  (uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
noun:  (countable) An individual act of trickery or deception.
noun:  (uncountable, archaic) The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.
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