Intricate

What is Intricate?


1.

Complex or complicated

It is an extremely intricate system.

See tangled, knotty, complex

2.

To bring people on board or to get them onside with an idea or a proposal or an initiative of some type by getting them 'intricated' into the process bit by bit, almost without their noticing that they are making a commitment.

When a group was trying to Bring Back the Ottawa Senators in 1990, a team that had not played in the National Hockey League for nearly 60 years, one of their key advisers, former US Attorney General, Elliot Richardson (now deceased) said: "First we'll intricate the League then we'll get the (expansion) franchise!"

See commitment, intricated, onside, promise, franchise, commit, grant, vote, decide, favor


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