strategy
NOUN:
1. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
Also strategics.
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.
5. the art or science of the planning and conduct of a war; generalship.
6. a particular long-term plan for success, esp in business or politics.
Compare tactics.
7. a plan or stratagem.
8. the science and art of employing the political, economic, psychological, and military forces of a nation or group of nations to afford the maximum support to adopted policies in peace or war.
9. the science and art of military command exercised to meet the enemy in combat under advantageous conditions.
10. a variety of or instance of the use of strategy.
11. a careful plan or method; a clever stratagem.
12. the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems toward a goal.
13. an adaptation or complex of adaptations (as of behavior, metabolism, or structure) that serves or appears to serve an important function in achieving evolutionary success:
foraging strategies of insects.
Examples:
They are proposing a new strategy for treating the disease with a combination of medications; The government is developing innovative strategies to help people without insurance get medical care. —Merriam-Webster.
Origin:
1680–90; < Greek stratēgía generalship, equivalent to stratēg(ós) military commander, general (strat(ós) army + -ēgos noun derivative of ágein to lead). Dictionary 2: C17: from French stratégie, from Greek stratēgia function of a general; see stratagem. —Dictionary.com. // History and Etymology: Greek stratēgia generalship, from stratēgos. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
1. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
Also strategics.
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.
5. the art or science of the planning and conduct of a war; generalship.
6. a particular long-term plan for success, esp in business or politics.
Compare tactics.
7. a plan or stratagem.
8. the science and art of employing the political, economic, psychological, and military forces of a nation or group of nations to afford the maximum support to adopted policies in peace or war.
9. the science and art of military command exercised to meet the enemy in combat under advantageous conditions.
10. a variety of or instance of the use of strategy.
11. a careful plan or method; a clever stratagem.
12. the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems toward a goal.
13. an adaptation or complex of adaptations (as of behavior, metabolism, or structure) that serves or appears to serve an important function in achieving evolutionary success:
foraging strategies of insects.
Examples:
They are proposing a new strategy for treating the disease with a combination of medications; The government is developing innovative strategies to help people without insurance get medical care. —Merriam-Webster.
Origin:
1680–90; < Greek stratēgía generalship, equivalent to stratēg(ós) military commander, general (strat(ós) army + -ēgos noun derivative of ágein to lead). Dictionary 2: C17: from French stratégie, from Greek stratēgia function of a general; see stratagem. —Dictionary.com. // History and Etymology: Greek stratēgia generalship, from stratēgos. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.