subterfuge : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: subterfuge	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subterfuge n something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" Synonym(s): subterfuge, blind
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subterfuge \Sub"ter*fuge\, n. [F., from LL. subterfugium, fr. L. subterfugere to flee secretly, to escape; subter under + fugere to flee. See {Fugitive}.] That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument. --I. Watts. By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory. --Burke.