counterterrorism a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism
game plan (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport
game plan (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport
house of cards,
bubble an unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"
playbook a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition"
secret plan,
plot,
game a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
pyramid scheme a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in
scheme -
a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
economic system,
economy an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents"
ecosystem a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
hierarchy the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
dragnet a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals); "caught in the police dragnet"
machinery machines or machine systems collectively
network,
web (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs; "the networks compete to broadcast important sports events"
nonlinear system a system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree
subsystem a system that is part of some larger system
organism a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
syntax the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
body the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"
shebang an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'
solar system the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field
water system a facility that provides a source of water; "the town debated the purification of the water supply"; "first you have to cut off the water"
scheme -
an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
