Spanish-English translations for estratagema

contrivance
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What is being promoted here is a phoney and empty contrivance, designed to bring statehood to Europe. Lo que se está defendiendo aquí es una estratagema falsa y vacía, urdida para dotar a Europa de la condición de Estado.
gambitHer clever gambit gave her an advantage.Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.

gimmickThe box had a gimmick to make the coin appear to vanish.The contest was a gimmick to get people to sign up for their mailing list.The magicians box was gimmicked with a wire that made it appear to open on its own.
scheme
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stratagemNow the cynics are rubbing their hands with glee at having come up with a no-lose stratagem. Y ahora los cínicos están frotándose las manos porque han dado con una estratagema infalible. Nor should workers in a particular country be pressurised, through this stratagem, into accepting poorer conditions. Tampoco habría que presionar a los trabajadores de un país determinado, a través de esta estratagema, para que acepten peores condiciones. The words ‘social dumping’ are hissed like an evil incantation, denoting one more wicked stratagem from Brussels. Se sisea el término «dúmping social» como si se tratara de un conjuro maléfico, denotando otra estratagema perversa de Bruselas.