Definition of "secret plan" []

• A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "For bin Laden, the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret plan to carve up the disintegrating Ottoman Empire between the French and British, has the same resonance that the 1919 Treaty of Versailles did for Hitler."
• "More worrying was the suspicion that they attracted from the authorities, as there were numerous rumours that the Templars had a secret plan to take revenge on the French monarchy and the papacy for the suppression of their Order and the execution of Jacques de Molay."
• "In a hilarious, deadpan, self-mocking speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington, he was widely reported to have said he had a secret plan to win the White House: he would claim credit for all the good stuff that had happened in the past eight years and dissociate himself from the bad stuff."