Strategy
['strætɪdʒɪ] or ['strætədʒi]
Definition
(noun.) the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war.
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Definition
(n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
(n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Generalship, strategetics, tactics, military science.
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Examples
- And he did not believe in the extreme discretion that then ruled Roman strategy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is the weaker party and can hope for success only through strategy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is work that requires stealth and strategy, not force. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The men are trained in the higher branches of the art of war; in strategy and the maneuvering of large bodies of troops. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Credit is due to the troops engaged, it is true, but the plans and the strategy were the general's. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By far the greatest effect of her simple strategy on that day was, as often happens, in a quarter quite outside her view when arranging it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There was no general in Europe, from Frederick II downward, who was not a tyro in strategy compared to Subutai. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I determined to make at least one more effort to learn something, and to this end I adopted strategy when next the youth came to my cell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The reddleman, stung with suspicion of wrong to Thomasin, was aroused to strategy in a moment. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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