Gambit

Noun

 * 1) An opening in chess, in which a minor piece (often a pawn) is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
 * 2) Any ploy or stratagem.
 * Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.
 * 1) A remark intended to open a conversation.
 * Her clever opening gambit gave her an advantage.

Thesaurus
alpha, approach, art, artful dodge, artifice, assay, attempt, bag of tricks, bid, blind, bluff, bosey, breaking-in, catch, chicanery, chouse, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, crack, craft, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deceit, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, dodge, effort, endeavor, essay, expedient, experiment, fakement, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, first, first blush, first glance, first impression, first inning, first lap, first move, first round, first sight, first stage, first step, fling, game, gimmick, go, googly, grift, hocus-pocus, initial, initiative, intrigue, jig, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, le premier pas, lick, little game, maneuver, move, offer, opening move, pass, plan, play, plot, ploy, prime, primitiveness, primitivity, racket, red herring, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick, shift, shot, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, stab, step, stratagem, strategy, stroke, strong bid, subterfuge, tactic, tentative, trial, trial and error, trick, trickery, try, undertaking, warming-up, whack, whizzer, wile, wily device

Etymology
From, from gambito:, from  gambetto:, from gamba:, from  gamba:.

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 * Italian:
 * Persian: گامبی
 * Spanish: gambito


 * French: statagème


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