Schemer

Schemer
Schemer Schem"er, n. One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer. [1913 Webster]

Schemers and confederates in guilt. --Paley. [1913 Webster]


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  • Schemer — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Naomi Schemer (1930–2004), israelische Sängerin Stefan Schemer (* 1928), österreichischer Politiker (SPÖ) Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselb …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • schemer — UK US /ˈskiːmər/ noun [C] DISAPPROVING ► someone who makes clever secret plans intended to deceive people: »He is a schemer whose greed motivated him to hide the financial terms of the contract from his clients …   Financial and business terms

  • schemer — index architect, coactor, conspirator, conspirer Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • schemer —    A priest in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man calls a boy ‘lazy little schemer’. It is likely that any agent noun of the ‘schemer’ type could be used as the headword in a vocative group …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • schemer — [[t]ski͟ːmə(r)[/t]] schemers N COUNT (disapproval) If you refer to someone as a schemer, you mean that they make secret plans in order to get some benefit for themselves. This is not to say we all want to turn into office schemers, thinking of… …   English dictionary

  • schemer — scheme ► NOUN 1) a systematic plan or arrangement for achieving a particular object or effect. 2) a secret or underhand plan; a plot. 3) a particular ordered system or pattern: a classical rhyme scheme. ► VERB 1) make plans in an underhand way;… …   English terms dictionary

  • Schemer - Shining Time Station — Schemer is a fictional character from the popular children s TV show Shining Time Station. He is portrayed by American actor Brian O Connor. He is true to his namesake and frequently plays jokes on other characters. He is the owner of the arcade… …   Wikipedia

  • schemer — noun see scheme II …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • schemer — See scheme. * * * …   Universalium

  • Schemer — noun A person who programs in Scheme …   Wiktionary

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