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strategy

[ strat-i-jee ]

noun

, plural strat·e·gies.
  1. Also the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
  2. the use or an instance of using this science or art.
  3. skillful use of a stratagem:

    The salesperson's strategy was to seem always to agree with the customer.

  4. a plan, method, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining a specific goal or result:

    a strategy for getting ahead in the world.



strategy

/ ˈstrætɪdʒɪ /

noun

  1. the art or science of the planning and conduct of a war; generalship
  2. a particular long-term plan for success, esp in business or politics Compare tactics
  3. a plan or stratagem


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Other Words From

  • counter·strate·gy noun plural counterstrategies

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Word History and Origins

Origin of strategy1

First recorded in 1680–90; from Greek stratēgía “generalship,” equivalent to stratēg(os) “military commander, general” ( strat(ós) “army” + -ēgos, noun derivative of ágein “to lead”) + -ia -y 3

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Word History and Origins

Origin of strategy1

C17: from French stratégie, from Greek stratēgia function of a general; see stratagem

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Synonym Study

In military usage, a distinction is made between strategy and tactics. Strategy is the utilization, during both peace and war, of all of a nation's forces, through large-scale, long-range planning and development, to ensure security or victory. Tactics deals with the use and deployment of troops in actual combat.

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Example Sentences

That strategy has been used in some cases to help determine GMO policy.

It is also important to avoid using the pope as part of a marketing strategy.

Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.

Offending the other ones has been a central strategy for Paul over the last year.

Those who have watched anti-gay groups closely suggest that there will be two major strategic shifts in their strategy.

He had no conception of the use of the other arms of the service, and never gained even the most elementary knowledge of strategy.

The firm foundation that Scattergood's strategy rested upon was that lumbering had not really started in the valley.

Nor did they advance beyond Wallace in the still more important principles of large strategy.

It was recovered by Cerizet by means of a strategy worthy of a Scapin.

"You may put strategy out of the definition, leaving in the woman," she continued ironically.

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