strategy

Definitions


[ˈstratɪdʒi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim
(e.g: time to develop a coherent economic strategy)

- the art of planning and directing overall military operations and movements in a war or battle (often contrasted with tactics)
(e.g: he was a genius when it came to military strategy)


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Origin:
early 17th century (denoting an army, government, or province under the command or rule of a general): from Greek stratēgia ‘generalship’, ‘province governed by a general’, from stratēgos ‘general’(see stratagem)




definition by Oxford Dictionaries