trick, ruse, stratagem, maneuver, artifice, wile, feint mean an indirect means to gain an end. trick may imply deception, roguishness, illusion, and either an evil or harmless end.
RUSE definition: 1. a trick intended to deceive someone: 2. a trick intended to deceive someone: 3. a trick…. Learn more.
Definition of ruse noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
ruse (third-person singular simple present ruses, present participle rusing, simple past and past participle rused) (intransitive) To deceive or trick using a ruse. quotations
There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun ruse, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Ruse won her maiden WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Hamburg European Open. She has also won six singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Ruse won two junior singles titles and eight junior doubles titles.
RUSE definition: a trick, stratagem, or artifice. See examples of ruse used in a sentence.
A ruse is a strategy or tactic used to deceive or mislead someone, often to gain an advantage or to hide the truth. It involves trickery, decoys, or misleading schemes.
You'd use a ruse if you were up to something sneaky and were trying to get away with it without being discovered. The wife planning a surprise birthday party for her husband could send him out to the supermarket as a ruse, a trick so she could sneak one hundred of his closest friends into the house without him noticing.