• n.
    ⦿something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
    lexical concept

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:pretext
  2. enl:stalking-horse
wn:interlingual indexili:i72015

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelpretextstalking-horse