secret plan

1. 1.

   a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)

   “they concocted a plot to discredit the governor”

   “I saw through his little game from the start”

   Synonymsplotgame

   Broaderscheme

   Narrowercounterplotintrigueconspiracy

Questions about secret plan

What does secret plan mean?

secret plan means "a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)".

What is another word for secret plan?

Close synonyms include plot, game. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is secret plan a common word?

secret plan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.