strategy | | |
n. (cognition) | 1. scheme, strategy | an elaborate and systematic plan of action. |
| ~ plan of action | a plan for actively doing something. |
| ~ dodge, stratagem, contrivance | an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" |
| ~ counterterrorism | a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism. |
| ~ game plan | (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport. |
| ~ game plan | (figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs.; "newscasters speculated about the President's game plan for an invasion" |
| ~ house of cards, bubble | a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control.; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" |
| ~ playbook | a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign.; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition" |
| ~ plot, secret plan, game | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal).; "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start" |
| ~ pyramid scheme | a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in. |
| ~ waiting game | a strategy of delay. |
| ~ wheeze | (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick.; "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat" |
| ~ incentive program, incentive scheme | a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something. |
n. (cognition) | 2. strategy | the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war. |
| ~ military science | the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare. |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
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