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plotsnounpl. of plot a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful endsthe Secret Service uncovered just in time a plot to assassinate the President conspiracies, designs, intrigues, machinations, schemes counterconspiracies(or counter-conspiracies), counterplotsframe-upsmanipulations, subterfuges, trickeriesartifices, contrivances, cover-ups, dodges, drafts, maneuvers, stratagems, trickscabals, confederacies, ringsgames, gimmicks, racketsground plans, programs, strategies, systemscollusions, complicities, connivances, conspirations a small area of usually open landgrew vegetables in a little plot clearings, fields, grounds, lots, parcels, plats, tracts commons, crofts(chiefly British)grasses, green, greenswards, lawnsglades, grasslands, heathlands, heaths, leas(or leys), meadows, moors, pasturelands, pastures a small piece of land that is developed or available for developmentsubdivided the old farm into plots for tract houses lots, parcels, plats, properties, tracts patchesfrontagesleasesdevelopmentsreal estates the unfolding of events in a dramatic or literary workwrote novels in which the plot was always subordinate to the characterizations actions, stories, story lines subplotsarcs, developmentsdesigns, outlines, plans, schemesarguments, mythoi, subjects, themes to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful endsmobsters were caught plotting to take over the company colludes, compasses, connives, conspires, contrives, intrigues, machinates, puts up, schemes counterplotsbrews, concocts, cooks (up), devises, hatchesengineers, jockeys, maneuvers, manipulatesdesigns, frames, lays out, maps, plans, shapes |