Usually means: Trick to deceive or manipulate.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Ruse, ruse: Merriam-Webster
  3. Ruse, ruse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Ruse, ruse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ruse: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ruse: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ruse, ruse: Wordnik
  8. ruse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Ruse, ruse: Wiktionary
  10. ruse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ruse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ruse: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ruse, ruse: Dictionary.com
  14. ruse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ruse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. R.U.S.E, Ruse (book), Ruse (comics), Ruse (video game), Ruse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ruse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ruse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ruse: Rhymezone
  20. ruse, ruse (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ruse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ruse: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ruse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Ruse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ruse (disambiguation), ruse: Legal dictionary

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  1. Ruse (disambiguation), Ruse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RUSE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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