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Trollope ploys

Trollope ploys is the plural of Trollope ploy.

Meaning of Trollope ploy

Noun

Trollope ploy (plural Trollope ploys)

  1. A negotiation technique in which a proposal from another party is deliberately misinterpreted in such a way that it is more to the responding party's liking, with the aim of having the misinterpreted version accepted in the interests of diplomacy.

Questions about Trollope ploys

What is Trollope ploys the plural of?
Trollope ploys is the plural of Trollope ploy.

Words near Trollope ploys in the dictionary

  1. trollmen
  2. trollness
  3. trollop
  4. Trollope
  5. Trollope ploy
  6. Trollope ploys
  7. Trollopean
  8. Trollopeana
  9. trolloped
  10. trollopee
  11. trollopees

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