strategy
/ˈstɹæt.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ/US/ˈstɹæt.ɪ.d͡ʒi/
strategy noun: the science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
Noun
strategy (countable and uncountable, plural strategies)
- The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
- “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
- A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
- Oftentimes, the very simple strategies pay very great dividends.
- Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to...2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
- The act of strategizing; the development of effective strategies.
strategy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
strategy in Hindi
- science and art of military command
- रणनीति raṇnīti
strategy in Tamil
- உத்தி, நுண்திறம், வினைமுறைத் திறம், செயல்வடிவம், செயல்திட்டம், செயல்வழி
strategy in Urdu
- science and art of military command
- حِکْمَتِ عَمْلی hikmat-i 'amlī, چال cāl, تدبیر tadbīr
strategy in Bengali
- কৌশল
More languagesFewer languages
- strategy in Telugu
- వ్యూహము vyūhamu
- strategy in Malayalam
- തന്ത്രം tantraṁ
- strategy in Kannada
- ಸೇನಾವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ, ವ್ಯೂಹರಚನೆ, ಯೋಜನೆಯನ್ನು ಸಾಧಿಸಲು ಅನುಸರಿಸುವ ನೀತಿ, ಹಮ್ಮುಗೆಯ ಚೆಚ್ಚರಿಕೆ
- strategy in Tagalog
- patigayon, estratehiya
- strategy in Arabic
- إِسْتْرَاتِيجِيَّة ʔistrātījiyya
- strategy in Malay
- strategi
- strategy in Indonesian
- strategi
- strategy in Persian
- راهبرد râhbord, استراتژی esterâteži
- strategy in Thai
- ยุทธศาสตร์ yút-tá-sàat, กลยุทธ์ gon-lá-yút
- strategy in Vietnamese
- chiến lược
- strategy in Myanmar
- မဟာဗျူဟာ ma.habyuha, စစ်နည်းဗျူဟာ cacnany:byuha, နည်းဗျူဟာ nany:byuha
Examples of strategy in a sentence
- The company plans to accelerate its growth with new marketing strategies.
- With that dunk, he burned the defender and the coach's whole strategy.
- The key to winning that game is your strategy at the beginning.
Synonyms of strategy
Forms of strategy
| plural | strategies |
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Origin of strategy
Derived from Latin stratēgia, from Ancient Greek στρατηγία (stratēgía, “office of general, command, generalship”), from στρατηγός (stratēgós, “the leader or commander of an army, a general”), from στρατός (stratós, “army”) + ἄγω (ágō, “to lead, conduct”).
Words formed from strategy
- basic strategy
- Cloward-Piven strategy
- coping strategy
- counter strategy
- counterstrategy
- counter-strategy
- cyberstrategy
- e-strategy
- evolutionarily stable strategy
- exit strategy
- fifty-state strategy
- geostrategy
- investment strategy
- mating strategy
- metastrategy
- multistrategy
- real-time strategy
- sneaky fucker strategy
- sprinkler strategy
- strap strategy
- strategetic
- strategic
- strategics
- strategism
- strategist
- strategy game
- strategy guide
- strategyless
- strategy of tension
- strategy pattern
- strategyproof
- strip strategy
- substrategy
Phrases with strategy
Questions about strategy
- What does strategy mean?
- Strategy means the science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
- What is strategy in Hindi?
- Strategy in Hindi is रणनीति (raṇnīti). See Strategy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is strategy?
- Strategy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce strategy?
- Strategy is pronounced /ˈstɹæt.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of strategy?
- The plural of strategy is strategies.
Words near strategy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: strategy (page history and authors); strategy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Strategy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); వ్యూహము (Telugu) (page history and authors); strategy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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