[metesky]

I'm especially fond of the word scheme:

scheme

PRONUNCIATION: skm
NOUN: 1. A systematic plan of action: “Did you ever carry out your scheme of writing a series of sonnets embodying all the great epochs of art?” (Edith Wharton, That Good May Come 1894). 2. A secret or devious plan; a plot. See synonyms at plan. 3. An orderly combination of related parts: an irrigation scheme with dams, reservoirs, and channels. 4. A chart, diagram, or outline of a system or object.
VERB: Inflected forms: schemed, schem·ing, schemes

TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To plot: scheming their revenge. 2. To contrive a plan or scheme for.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To make plans, especially secret or devious ones.
ETYMOLOGY: Latin schma, figure, from Greek skhma. See segh- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS: schemer —NOUN

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[headsonpikes]

The French call one of these 'schemes' a 'projet'.

We suffer a lot of schemes and projets in Canada; that's one of the 'benefits' of bilingualism.

They're not good ideas in any language.

[philman_36]

Lots of use of the word "scheme". I don't think it's accidental.
Taxation scheme
Zoning scheme
Education scheme
Housing scheme
Poverty-free scheme
Federal regulatory scheme

So much more...

[philman_36]

A whole bunch! on Administrative scheme