Scheme Skiːm Schools Extra Successful Funding Things Noun

• a training scheme
• a local scheme for recycling newspapers
• to introduce/operate a scheme to improve links between schools and industry
• under the new scheme only successful schools will be given extra funding.

scheme

1. a plan or system for doing or organizing something
• SEE ALSO pension scheme
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/pension-plan#pension_plan_vg_1
• a training scheme
• a local scheme for recycling newspapers
• to introduce/operate a scheme to improve links between schools and industry
• Under the new scheme only successful schools will be given extra funding.
• to introduce/launch/run a scheme
• a salary/insurance/loan scheme
• The houses have been demolished as part of a major regeneration scheme.

Extra Examples

• The project is based on a successful pilot scheme in Glasgow.
• The scheme allows customers to trade in their own computer against the cost of a new one.
• Under the scheme, land would be sold to building companies.
• a government-backed scheme
• a scheme whereby the elderly will be provided with help in the home
2. a plan for getting money or some other advantage for yourself, especially one that involves cheating other people
• SEE ALSO pyramid scheme
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/pyramid-scheme
• an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes
• They hatched a scheme to rob a Monte Carlo casino.
• Is this another one of your crazy schemes for making money?

Extra Examples

• Police uncovered a scheme to steal paintings worth more than $250 000.
• This is not one of those get-rich-quick schemes that you see on the internet.
• She's come up with a hare-brained scheme for getting her novel published.
• He has an ingenious scheme to attract funding.
• They concocted an elaborate fund-raising scheme.
3. an ordered system or arrangement
• SEE ALSO colour scheme
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/colour-scheme
• It is a poem with a rhyme scheme and a defined structure.
4. an area of social housing (= houses or flats for people to rent or buy at low prices)
• I'm from Glasgow and grew up in a scheme.
5. the way things seem to be organized; the way somebody wants everything to be organized
• My personal problems are not really important in the overall scheme of things.
• This small annoyance isn't much in the grand scheme of things.
• I don't think marriage figures in his scheme of things.

Word Origin

• mid 16th cent. (denoting a figure of speech): from Latin schema, from Greek skhēma ‘form, figure’. An early sense was ‘diagram of the position of celestial objects’, giving rise to ‘diagram, outline’, which led to the current senses. The unfavourable sense “plot” arose in the mid 18th cent.