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plotnoun a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful endsthe Secret Service uncovered just in time a plot to assassinate the President conspiracy, design, intrigue, machination, scheme counterconspiracy, counterplotframe-upmanipulation, subterfuge, trickeryartifice, contrivance, cover-up, dodge, draft, maneuver, stratagem, trickcabal, confederacy, ringgame, gimmick, racketground plan, program, strategy, systemcollusion, complicity, connivance, conniving, conspiration a small area of usually open landgrew vegetables in a little plot clearing, field, ground, lot, parcel, plat, tract common(s), croft(chiefly British)grass, green, greensward, lawnglade, grassland, heath, heathland, lea(or ley), meadow, moor, pasture, pastureland a small piece of land that is developed or available for developmentsubdivided the old farm into plots for tract houses lot, parcel, plat, property, tract patchfrontageleasedevelopmentreal estate the unfolding of events in a dramatic or literary workwrote novels in which the plot was always subordinate to the characterizations action, story, story line subplotarc, developmentdesign, outline, plan, schemeargument, mythos, subject, theme to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful endsmobsters were caught plotting to take over the company collude, compass, connive, conspire, contrive, intrigue, machinate, put up, scheme counterplotbrew, concoct, cook (up), devise, hatchengineer, jockey, maneuver, manipulatedesign, frame, lay out, map, plan, shape n.plot, intrigue, machination, conspiracy, cabal mean a plan secretly devised to accomplish an evil or treacherous end.plot implies careful foresight in planning a complex scheme.an assassination plot intrigue suggests secret underhanded maneuvering in an atmosphere of duplicity.backstairs intrigue machination implies a contriving of annoyances, injuries, or evils by indirect means.the machinations of a party boss conspiracy implies a secret agreement among several people usually involving treason or great treachery.a conspiracy to fix prices cabal typically applies to political intrigue involving persons of some eminence.a cabal among powerful senators Cf. plan. before the 12th century |