strategy; artifice
敵の策謀を事前に察知して対策を講じた。
They detected the enemy's scheme in advance and took countermeasures.
政権を奪うための策謀が密かに進んでいた。
A plot to seize power was secretly underway.
巧みな策謀により相手を出し抜いた。
With a clever stratagem, they outwitted their opponent.