Definitions for schemes
schemes

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'schemes' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2098

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'schemes' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1974

How to pronounce schemes?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say schemes in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of schemes in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of schemes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of schemes in a Sentence

1. John KASICH:

   My great concern is that we are on the verge of perhaps picking someone who cannot do this job. I've watched to see people say that we should dismantle Medicare and Medicaid and leave our senior citizens out, out in the cold. I've heard them talk about deporting 10 or 11 (million) people here from this country out of this country, splitting families. I've heard about tax schemes that don't add up that put our kids in a deeper hole than they are today.

2. Becket Executive Director Montse Alvarado:

   It makes little sense to celebrate religious diversity by banning any sense of actual holiday celebration, and what do they have against color schemes, are we living in communist Cuba?

3. Rahm Emanuel:

   Chicago will not be blackmailed into changing our values, and we are and will remain a welcoming city, the federal government should be working with cities to provide necessary resources to improve public safety, not concocting new schemes to reduce our crime-fighting resources.

4. Octavio Paz:

   The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.

5. Foreign Ministry:

   One or two people in the U.S. are confusing right and wrong and sowing discord on these issues. These schemes will not prevail.

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