strategy

[ strat-i-jee ]

/ ˈstræt ɪ dʒi /

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noun, plural strat·e·gies.

Also strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.

the use or an instance of using this science or art.

skillful use of a stratagem: The salesperson's strategy was to seem always to agree with the customer.

a plan, method, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining a specific goal or result: a strategy for getting ahead in the world.

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Origin of strategy

1680–90; <Greek stratēgía generalship, equivalent to stratēg(ós) military commander, general (strat(ós) army + -ēgos noun derivative of ágein to lead) + -ia-y³

synonym study for strategy

1. 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.

OTHER WORDS FROM strategy

coun·ter·strat·e·gy, noun, plural coun·ter·strat·e·gies.

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH strategy

1. stratagem, strategy 2. strategy , tactics (see synonym study at the current entry)

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How to use strategy in a sentence

At one point it contemplated making its own phone, before ultimately shifting to a strategy of trying to put a Facebook skin on top of the Android operating system, an approach that flopped.
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Often, this strategy is the key to successful marketing strategy.
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Instead, here is the definitive list of Google ranking factors, each of which can make or break your search optimization strategy.
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Ditching growth stocks for value stocks is a fairly logical strategy with Election Day around the corner, a mere 48 days away.
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Thanks to CompStat and strategies added by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, crime continued to decline.
Eric Garner Was Just a Number to Them|Michael Daly|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All of these strategies need to include young men, so that they are part of the solution.
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Conflicts and resolutions were staged with the skill of a chessplayer working out new endgame strategies.
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CD Global Strategies reported earning $30,000 for the Burkina Faso work and $100,000 for assisting Togo.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article called Purple Strategies a Democratic firm.
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And you achieved unusual wealth chiefly by the powers and strategies of your character.
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What strategies she had had to employ to escape from the house!
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What determination could effect, that could Red Wall; but achievement by inaction—supremest of all strategies—was not for him.
Bob, Son of Battle|Alfred Ollivant
The politics, the strategies, the administration of the Empire continued by the men of the 4th September have been judged.
History of the Commune of 1871|P. Lissagary
The strategies mentioned thus far constitute one series of answers to critics who charged Pope with debasing true epic.
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British Dictionary definitions for strategy

strategy

/ (ˈstrætɪdʒɪ) /

noun plural -gies

the art or science of the planning and conduct of a war; generalship

a particular long-term plan for success, esp in business or politicsCompare tactics (def. 2)

a plan or stratagem

Word Origin for strategy

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

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