What is the meaning of scheme?

noun

• An elaborate and systematic plan of action.
  • synonyms: strategy
• A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery.
  • synonyms: dodge, dodging
• A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.
  • usage: "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
  • synonyms: system
• An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world.
  • synonyms: schema
• A schematic or preliminary plan.
  • synonyms: outline, schema

verb

• Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner.
  • synonyms: intrigue, connive
• Devise a system or form a scheme for. .