Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.
- n. The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of large-scale combat operations.
- n. A plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a specific goal. See Synonyms at plan.
- n. The art or skill of using stratagems in endeavors such as politics and business.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of combining and employing the means which the different branches of the art of war afford, for the purpose of forming projects of operations and of directing great military movements; the art of moving troops so as to be enabled either to dispense with a battle or to deliver one with the greatest advantage and with the most decisive results; generalship. ; . In strategy three things demand especial consideration: the base of operations, or line from which an army commences its advance upon an enemy
- n. The use of artifice, finesse, or stratagem for the carrying out of any project.
Wiktionary
- n. The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
- n. A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
- n. The art of using similar techniques in politics or business.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war
- n. an elaborate and systematic plan of action
Etymologies
- From Old French strategie, from Ancient Greek στρατηγία (stratēgia, "office of general, command, generalship"), from στρατηγός (stratēgos, "the leader or commander of an army, a general"), from στρατός (stratos, "army") + ἄγω (ago, "I lead, I conduct"). (Wiktionary)
- French stratégie, from Greek stratēgiā, office of a general, from stratēgos, general; see stratagem. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The goal of this ploy the term strategy does not apply here is not to improve odds of winning, but instead to create a safety net for “Rusty”—the player who claims to be “out of practice” and who predicts his own defeat.”
Simon & Schuster: THE OFFICIAL ROCK PAPER SCISSORS STRATEGY GUIDE
“Thus, we shall use the term strategy formation in the rest of this book, not because strategies have to be purely emergent but simply to allow for the fact that they can be, or, more realistically, almost inevitably partially are.”
“This weird Palin strategy is right out of the Rove\Repub play book.”
“But, according to the same Washington Post report, "no major change in strategy is expected in December.”
“While no major change in strategy is expected in December, critics could use the latest assessments to argue that the continued investment of American resources and lives is misguided, particularly when the main impediment to progress that analysts cite is beyond American control.”
The Washington Post: U.S. military campaign to topple resilient Taliban hasn't succeeded
“The Bush-McCain strategy is a bandaid approach which ultimately does more harm than good.”
Iraq Veteran Takes On McCain In New Ad - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“President Bush's comments tonight indicate that he understands that a change in strategy is needed," said Jindal, a second-term congressman mulling a run for governor this year.”
“You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.”
“We decided to replace the B-word with the term strategy.”
“Instead, I had to find out about the change in strategy from a Minnesota lawyer named James E. Rolshouse, who ran a Chinese-menu ad last week in the Alton Telegraph, my local paper.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘strategy’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
nonparametric, nonparametric sta..., multivariate anal..., partial different..., multivariate, topology, stochastic, differential equa..., linear algebra, harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorial and 205 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
object-oriented p..., ALGOL, validation, Erlang, markup language, Python, hibernate, framework, Apache, template, mapper, Java and 310 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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SEDE - planning
readiness, recruitment, mobilisation, prevention, operation planning
defense program, planning and proc..., build up, conscript army, peacetime prepare..., uranium conversion, uranium enrichment, aptitude test, basic training, conscript service, defence procurement, dimensions of mob... and 77 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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TECH - Steve Jobs
visionary, redefine, digital, founder, era, computer, cultural, product, global, gaunt, frail, executive and 76 more...
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Miscellaneous
‽, ☤, mandelbrot, angora rabbit, psychrolutes marc..., vampyroteuthis in..., basking shark, mano de desierto, underwater sculpt..., surgical dining, gyroscope, Derinkuyu and 161 more...
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Lifehacking
Start with the effect, the what; signal-patch known-belief spirit. "Write my program, routine me." New cue vs brand loyalty. Ritual Ceremony Design Technologies, Inc.
confusion, misdirection, fractionation, disequilibrium, relaxation, repetition, impassioned, intensity, suddenly, shock, concentration, focus and 118 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Alles ganz verschieden
Listed various words that have come into my mind. Will edit them at some point - honestly.
dog-gold, shoulderlooker, mr. considering, the pigwoman, stevie is waiting, chingwybodganpwy, thelandscapeisstu..., couchsurfing, cappuccinodrinking, meat-eater, posher, mae rhaid i fi fynd and 581 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for strategy.
Prolagus T. Oct 11, 2010
ruzuzu T. Oct 11, 2010
Prolagus It's your turn. Oct 10, 2010
qroqqa The reason this works is that the second player beats the first to whatever sequence the first chooses. If the first chose HTH, that begins HT, so any second-player strategy XHT has a 1 in 2 chance of winning one round before HTH comes up. (Rather than the naive 1 in 8 chance of waiting for one or the other triple to turn up.)
You choose your X to make sure it's not symmetric: that the first player hasn't got the same advantage over your sequence. Their choice ends in TH, so you mustn't let yours begin with that. So choose HHT, not THT. Oct 10, 2010
Prolagus H. Oct 9, 2010
Prolagus HHT.
*Tosses coin* Oct 9, 2010
ruzuzu Well, okay--I'll play. I pick HTH. Oct 9, 2010
oroboros Let’s play a game. We’ll each name three consecutive outcomes of a coin toss (for example, tails-heads-heads, or THH). Then we’ll flip a coin repeatedly until one of our chosen runs appears. That player wins.
Is there any strategy you can take to improve your chance of beating me? Strangely, there is. When I’ve named my triplet (say, HTH), take the complement of the center symbol and add it to the beginning, and then discard the last symbol (here yielding HHT). This new triplet will be more likely to appear than mine.
The remarkable thing is that this always works. No matter what triplet I pick, this method will always produce a triplet that is more likely to appear than mine. It was discovered by Barry Wolk of the University of Manitoba, building on a discovery by Walter Penney.
From futilitycloset.com Oct 9, 2010