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What is a stratagem?

What is a stratagem? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
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How pray tell have we humans managed to put a plethora of dune buggies on Mars but are apparently unable to come up with an effective stratagem for killing roaches?
But even if the calculated emollience is a stratagem, it confirms one of the most improbable features of his character.
Nor should workers in a particular country be pressurised, through this stratagem, into accepting poorer conditions.
Yet Laurier continued to procrastinate:  To get him into a corner, Hutton devised a stratagem that would cost him his job.
Some people of Korean origin in Japan have adopted this stratagem, as have some Twa in order to keep their positions as public servants.
He perceived with dismay that the stratagem of his defence had given Anne away.

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