Home / Dictionary / Strategy

Strategy Very Common

Strategy has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an elaborate and systematic plan of action

"The general's strategy for retaking the city involved a complex series of feints, supply cuts, and surprise night raids designed to overwhelm the enemy defenses."

2

the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

"The general studied ancient texts on strategy to better understand how commanders once planned and conducted entire wars."

3

The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.

"The general's strategy involved a daring flanking maneuver designed to encircle the enemy forces before they could retreat."

In plain English: A strategy is a carefully planned way to reach a specific goal by choosing the best actions to take.

"The marketing team spent the morning discussing their new strategy to launch the product."

Usage: Use strategy when referring to high-level plans designed to achieve long-term goals, distinguishing it from tactics which focus on specific actions within those broader objectives. This term applies beyond military contexts to business, politics, and personal development where overarching direction is required.

Example Sentences
"The marketing team spent the morning discussing their new strategy to launch the product." noun
"The marketing strategy helped us sell more products this year." noun
"She developed a study strategy to prepare for the final exam." noun
"Our travel strategy included visiting three new cities before returning home." noun
See Also
strategic strategist stratagem plan exit policy goal master plan retail politics
Related Terms
strategic strategist stratagem plan exit policy goal master plan retail politics day trade multistrategy planning military battlespace hack and slash bosberaad geostrategist eurogame counterstrategy cookbook scorched earth policy
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
plan of action military science
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
contrivance counterterrorism game plan house of cards playbook plot pyramid scheme waiting game wheeze incentive program

Origin

The word strategy comes from the Ancient Greek term for "office of general," which originally referred to the command or leadership of an army. It was formed by combining words meaning "army" and "to lead."

Rhyming Words
elegy bibliopegy e strategy geostrategy substrategy metastrategy cyberstrategy exit strategy strap strategy strip strategy counterstrategy counter strategy scoring strategy military strategy sprinkler strategy real time strategy problem solving strategy scoring software strategy query modification strategy evolutionarily stable strategy
Compare
Strategy vs