Trollope ploys

A form of Trollope ploy — A negotiation technique in which a proposal from another party is deliberately misinterpreted in such a way that it is more to the responding party's liking, with the aim of having the misinterpreted version accepted in the interests of diplomacy.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Trollope ploy
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