Scheme

Scheme or schemer may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

The Scheme, a BBC Scotland documentary TV series
The Scheme (band), an English pop band
The Scheme, an action role-playing video game for the PC-8801, made by Quest Corporation
Schemer (comics), Richard Fisk, a Marvel Comics villain turned antihero
Horace Schemer, a fictional character in the TV series Shining Time Station
Schemers (film), a Scottish film

Scheme (programming language), a minimalist dialect of Lisp
Scheme (URI), the front part of a web link, like "http" or "ftp"
Google Schemer, a former service allowing its users to share plans and interests

Classification scheme (information science), eg a thesaurus, a taxonomy, a data model or an ontology
Scheme (mathematics), a concept in algebraic geometry
Scheme (rhetoric), a figure of speech that changes a sentence's structure
Scam, an attempt to swindle or cheat people through deception
- Get-rich-quick scheme, a plan to obtain high rates of return for a small investment
- Matrix scheme, or ladder scheme, a business model involving the exchange of money for a product and a waiting list for a product of greater value
- Ponzi scheme, a scam paying investors returns from their own or others' money (rather than from profits)
- Pyramid scheme, a non-sustainable business model involving payments primarily for enrolling other people
Term used for a government-run program in Commonwealth countries, for example:
- Scheme, a type of government program in India
- Snowy Mountains Scheme in Australia
scheme of arrangement, type of legal agreement used for corporate restructuring, particularly in the UK and several other Commonwealth jurisdictions