Trollope ploy (English, noun)
expansion: Trollope ploy (plural Trollope ploys)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: Trollope ploys
tags: plural