Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A tactic, strategy, or scheme. · Sport; frolic. · Employment.
Possibly from a shortened form of employ or deploy. Or from earlier ploye, from Middle English, borrowed from Middle French ployer (compare modern plier), from Latin plicāre.
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