waiting game vs scheme

waiting game and scheme both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
waiting game	Yes	No	No	No
scheme	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, scheme is a hypernym of waiting game; that is, scheme is a word with a broader meaning than waiting game:

Other hypernyms of waiting game include strategy.

waiting game (noun)	scheme (noun)
a strategy of delay	an elaborate and systematic plan of action
	an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
	a schematic or preliminary plan
	a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
	a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

waiting game (verb)	scheme (verb)
	form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
	devise a system or form a scheme for