machination
1 synonym for machination, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A cunning plan, usually made with bad intentions.
Etymology
Comes from Middle English machynacion or machynacyon, from Middle French machination and directly from Latin māchinātiōnem, from māchinor (“devise, invent”). By surface analysis, it breaks down as machinate plus -ion, or machine plus -ation.
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