Strategy

Definition: Strategy

Strategy

Noun

1. An elaborate and systematic plan of action.

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

Date "strategy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Domain	Definition
Finance	Preconceived, logical plan of position selection and follow-up action. Source: European Union. (references)
Statistics	In the theory of games, a schedule giving the possible courses of action open to an individual according to the state of the game and possibly to previous action by his opponents. If the strategy lays down a single course of action for each situation it is said to be pure. If there are choices which are determined by a chance mechanism the strategy is mixed. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. Strategy applies to many disparate fields, such as:

Military strategy
Marketing strategies
Strategic management
Game theoretical strategy
Economic strategy

See also: Board of directors, Nuclear strategy, Sprouts game, Strategy game, Strategic planning, Strategy dynamics

Synonym: Strategy

Synonym: scheme (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Conduct	Tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity; generalship, statesmanship, seamanship; strategy, strategics; plan.
Warfare	Art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation; generalship; soldiership; logistics; military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery; chivalry.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Is this your strategy for getting the ring back? (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles) Yeah, good strategy. (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Lu�s Filipe Rocha) Discussing strategy with you would be like playing chess with a sugar bowl. (General Hospital; writing credit: Mogens Vemmer) Are you considering the strategy I'm considering? (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) I didn't know treason was part of the corporate strategy. (Eraser; writing credit: Tony Puryear; Walon Green)
Lyrics	Romance and all its strategy leaves me battling with my pride (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill)
Tongue Twisters	Tragedy strategy. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Strategy (1969) Helen Grayson's Strategy (1917) Ham's Strategy (1916) Tom's Strategy (1916) Father's Strategy (1915)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Direct Investment Strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2000 (reference) Marketing Strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2000 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action (reference) Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations (reference) Closing the Gap : A Strategy For Bringing Parents And Teens Together (reference) Strategy for Stable Peace: Toward a Euroatlantic Security Community (reference) Byrne's Wonderful World of Pool and Billiards: A Cornucopia of Instruction, Strategy, Anecdote, and Colorful Characters (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Aviation Strategy (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Course Strategy (reference) Gameplan:Language & Strategy (reference) Rod & Reel - Fly Fishing Success: Nymphing Strategy (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Head Shaking Time in the Office of Strategy (reference) Rock & Roll Strategy (reference) Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Classic Strategy Games To Go (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A list of the four goals of Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats: A Prevention Strategy for the United States. Credit: CDC.		The beginning of construction at one of the dams, as part of the remediation strategy. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	NHOTIC sign reading: National Historical Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Flagstaff Site - Expected Completion Date 1991. Approved Strategy for "The Oregon Comeback". Neil Goldschmidt, Governor. Credit: Unknown.		Strategy for generating conventional knockout mice. Credit: NIAA.
	The masked battery or Loco-Foco strategy. Credit: Library of Congress.		The strategy of secrecy. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Brazilian forest. Gathering nuts by strategy / H.N. Cady, pinx. ; photogravure, Gebbie & Husson Co., Ltd. Credit: Library of Congress.		Basic needs : a new strategy for development. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Yang Tze-jung, a Chinese PLA scout hero armed with Mao Tse-tung thought and imbued with the revolutionary wisdom and bravery of the proletariat, in the modern revolutionary Peking Opera, "Taking tiger mountain by strategy". Credit: Library of Congress.		Repression resistance : what strategy for the Left today?. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Sun Tzu	Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
	All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Virgil	Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He treated the strategy of the hostile general as a citadel, and battered it to a breach.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Another strategy uses aminoglycoside antibiotics. (references)
		Abstinence is the most effective strategy to prevent HPV infection. (references)
		Numerous other effects result from changes in donor screening strategy. (references)
Business		Financing of investments is also part of said strategy. (references)
		The CCL is part of the government's strategy to tackle global warming. (references)
		DII has no corporate strategy for project implementation or financing. (references)
Children	Korea	The UNCRC found that the Government's strategy, policies, and programs for children do not fully reflect the rights-based approach enshrined in the convention. (references)
Civil Liberties	China	Officials consider the Internet to be a key element of the nation's economic development strategy. (references)
	Rwanda	However, by year's end, the Government's strategy had changed to one of urging the groups to register with the Ministry of Justice to regularize their status. (references)
Economic History	Costa Rica	They view franchising as an easy market entry strategy. (references)
	India	A pricing strategy must consider all these factors, too. (references)
	Costa Rica	PriceSmart and Payless Shoes are an example of this strategy. (references)
Human Rights	Angola	This was part of a strategy that likely was designed to create insecurity and draw international attention. (references)
Indigenous People	New Zealand	Maori officials continued to express concern over the Government's announcement in November 2000 that it would shift its Closing the Gaps strategy to address socioeconomic disparities rather than race-based disparities. (references)
Minorities	Romania	Nevertheless the Roma office within the Government is understaffed, with only three civil servants, and longterm funding for the National Roma strategy has not yet been resolved. (references)
Political Economy	Mozambique	The military continued to suffer from a lack of money and a long-term strategy. (references)
	NICARAGUA	One key requirement is the implementation of a coherent poverty reduction strategy. (references)
	COLOMBIA	The so-called TES's (treasury bills) have been the main instruments in this strategy. (references)
Trade	Albania	The World Bank and IMF are currently cooperating to develop a poverty reduction and growth strategy for Albania. (references)
	Colombia	Exports of agricultural items were encouraged as part of the strategy to create alternative income sources for drug producers. (references)
	South Africa	It is also a broad-based strategy for achieving price stability, centered on an analysis of price developments and not on some reference value for monetary growth. (references)
Travel	New Zealand	There is nothing unusual about the New Zealand market in the context of pricing strategy. (references)
	Ukraine	For example, a letter authorizing Mr. X to do Y will sometimes be rejected because it does not have "the proper stamp." Foreign companies will often stamp a document in English with an "official" seal, show the stamp to a customs officer or other bureaucrat (who likely cannot read English anyway), finding that this strategy is often successful. (references)
Women	Indonesia	In November 1999, a group of government officials and NGO representatives signed a declaration calling for the development of a joint strategy to end violence against women. (references)
Worker Rights	Albania	The draft National Strategy was completed in December. (references)
	El Salvador	The Committee developed a strategy proposal and project proposals, which it submitted to the IPEC office for further elaboration. (references)
	Croatia	While government officials, international missions, and NGO's are working to develop an antitrafficking strategy, progress has been slow. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Christopher Shays	They're logical concerns, but the stakes are high. This is like after World War II when we had a new threat, we had to develop a new strategy and we had to reorganize.
Gennifer Flowers	I may have started it, but I didn't perpetuate the problem. If there is a strategy as we sit here and talk it would be Bill Clinton's fault, and I think that he certainly should take responsibility for his actions, which at times he finds hard to do.
Rush Limbaugh	But what I haven't yet told you is that this confusion-about the domestic-policy differences between Bush and Reagan and the domestic-policy similarities between Bush and Clinton is the result of a calculated strategy of the Clinton campaign.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	But as we learn, through success and failure, we are changing our strategy and we are trying to improve our tactics.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We are fully consistent with NATO's strategy of flexible response.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	At the heart of our strategy for peace is our relationship with the Soviet Union.
George Bush	1989-1993	It's designed to protect American and European interests and sustain NATO's defense strategy.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	This strategy, called community policing, has begun to work.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Strategy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Strategy" is used about 6,156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.92%	6,151	1,583
Noun (proper)	0.08%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	6,156	N/A

Expressions using "strategy": aggressive investment strategy ♦ art of military strategy ♦ confinement strategy ♦ control strategy ♦ corporate strategy ♦ dominating strategy ♦ emerging markets strategy ♦ evaluation strategy ♦ evolution strategy ♦ marketing strategy ♦ Martingale strategy ♦ military strategy ♦ reasoning strategy ♦ reduction strategy ♦ sales strategy ♦ spread strategy. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "strategy": strategy-formulation, strategy-formulators, strategy-maker, strategy-making, strategy-management, strategy-proof, strategy-setting.
	Ending with "strategy": corporate-strategy, counter-strategy.
	Containing "strategy": defence-strategy-led.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "strategy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		strategji (strategics). (various references)

Arabic		‏علم فن الحرب, ‏خطة إستيراتيجية, ‏التنظيم (organization), ‏التخطيط (adumbration, drawing, projection), ‏التدبير, ‏إستراتيجية, ‏براعة فن التخطيط. (various references)

Bulgarian		стратегия (strategics). (various references)

Chinese		略 (outline, plan, rather, slightly, summary, to plunder, to rob, to summarize), 戰略 , 战略 (strategic, strategical). (various references)

Czech		strategie. (various references)

Danish		spread (margin, spread, spread arbitrage, spread strategy), spreadstrategi (spread, spread strategy), kontrolstruktur (control strategy, control structure, reasoning strategy), Barbell-strategi (Barbell strategy), bedst-af-få strategi (best-few strategy), best-few strategi (best-few strategy, focus of attention), dominerende strategi (dominating strategy), en mere beskæftigelsesskabende vækststrategi (strategy of more employment-creating growth), grønbog om de strategiske muligheder for at styrke programindustrien (Green Paper on strategy options to strengthen the European programme industry), aggressiv investeringsstrategi (aggressive investment strategy), inflationsdaempende strategi (counter-inflationary strategy), langsigtet strategi for afbødning (long-term mitigation strategy), manoevreringsstrategi for kontrolstaenger (control rod maneuvering strategy), nulalternativ (do-nothing strategy), offensiv investeringsstrategi (aggressive investment strategy), oprydningsstrategi (cleanup strategy), ræsonneringsstrategi (reasoning strategy), indgåend overvejelse om edb-strategi (far-reaching examination of data-processing strategy). (various references)

Dutch		strategie. (various references)

Esperanto		strategio. (various references)

Farsi		فن لشکرکشی , فن تدابیرجنگی , استراتژی , رزم اراءی (Tactics). (various references)

Finnish		sotataito (art of war). (various references)

French		stratégie. (various references)

German		Strategie, Vorgehensweise (method). (various references)

Greek		στρατηγική (course of action, strategics, tactics). (various references)

Hebrew		תכסיס� ות, תכסיס (manner of conduct, ploy, shift, stratagem, tactics, trick), איסטרט�'י�", אסטרט�'י�", טכסיס� ות (tactics). (various references)

Hungarian		stratégia. (various references)

Indonesian		siasat (tactical). (various references)

Italian		strategia (strategics). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		謀略 (plot, scheme, stratagem, trick), 謀 (plan). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せ�"ぽう (advance guard, destination, divination, he, other party, she, tactics, they), はかり�"と (plan), へいりゃく, へいほう (art of war, me, mine, square, tactics, the advance of an army, the point of a sword), へいがく (military science, tactics), ようへいじゅつ (tactics), ストラテジー , かけひき (bargaining, haggling, tactics), とうりゃく (party politics, tactics), せ�"りゃく (tactics), ぐ�"がく (military music, military science, tactics), ぶりゃく (military tactics), さくせ�" (military or naval operations, tactics, tactics or operations), さくぼう (artifice), ぼうりゃく (plot, scheme, stratagem, trick), ひょうほう (art of war, tactics), ぐ�"りゃく (tactics), ぐ�"ぽう (martial law, military law, mountain range, tactics), せ�"き (battle flag, colic, military history, military secrets, time for battle). (various references)

Korean		� �략 (strategic, strategical). (various references)

Manx		strateysh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ategystray

Portuguese		estratégia (generalship, strategics, tactics). (various references)

Romanian		strategie (generalship, warfare), vicleşuguri, şiretlicuri. (various references)

Russian		стратегия (strategics, strategies). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		strategija (strategics). (various references)

Spanish		estrategia (generalship, set piece, strategics). (various references)

Swedish		strategi (strategics). (various references)

Turkish		strateji, savaş bilimi, taktik (diversionary, tactical, tactics, tip), kurnazlık (archness, art, artfulness, artifice, arts, astuteness, craftiness, cunning, dodge, finesse, foxiness, guile, shenanigan, shiftiness, slyness, smartness, stratagem, subtility, subtlety, trick, wheeler-dealing, wheeling and dealing, wiliness, wrinkle). (various references)

Ukrainian		стратегія (strategics). (various references)

Vietnamese		chiến lược. (various references)

Welsh		cadofyddiaeth (tactics). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	strategia. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	consilia, consilii, consiliis, consilio, consiliorum, consilium, consiliumque. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "strategy": counterstrategy, geostrategy. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Strategy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astrategy, srategy, startegy, stategy, stradegy, stragegy, stragtey, stratagy, stratedgy, stratedy, strateg, stratege, strategie, strategm, stratego, stratgey, stratigy, strtagey. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "strategy" (pronounced stra"tujē)
3	-u j ē	analogy, anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, cosmology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, elegy, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, eulogy, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, prodigy, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, trilogy, urology, virology, zoology.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-r-s-t-t-y"
	-1 letter: grayest, gyrates, targets, yatters.
	-2 letters: estray, gaster, gayest, grates, greasy, greats, gyrase, gyrate, retags, stager, stagey, stater, stayer, targes, target, taster, taters, tetras, treats, treaty, tryste, yagers, yarest, yatter.
	-3 letters: agers, artsy, aster, eyras, gates, gayer, gears, getas, grate, grays, great, greys, gyres, rages, rates, ratty, resay, retag, sager, sarge, satyr, sayer, stage.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-r-s-t-t-y"
	+3 letters: gastrectomy, geostrategy, tapestrying, travestying.
	+4 letters: astringently, scatteringly, shatteringly.
	+5 letters: geostationary, gesticulatory, investigatory, strategically.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
game strategy	1,988	craps strategy	163
strategy	1,364	internet strategy	163
marketing strategy	926	video poker strategy	159
warcraft 3 strategy	524	gambling strategy	154
strategy first	521	web strategy	153
black jack strategy	501	diablo 2 strategy	150
chess strategy	491	roulette strategy	148
internet marketing strategy	470	trading strategy	139
strategy guide	390	day trading strategy	134
business strategy	369	enter matrix strategy	130
teaching strategy	282	paintball strategy	124
star craft strategy	282	it strategy	124
reading strategy	277	strategy warcraft	121
ps2 strategy guide	258	finance strategy	113
web site marketing strategy	250	pc game strategy	112
poker strategy	243	cell guide splinter strategy	109
enter guide matrix strategy	233	texas hold em strategy	108
stock trading strategy	180	positioning strategy	104
investment strategy	179	gaming strategy war	101
online strategy game	169	warcraft iii strategy	101
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Strategy

Definition: Strategy

Strategy

Noun

Specialty Definition: Strategy

Specialty Definition: Strategy

Synonym: Strategy

Synonyms within Context: Strategy

Conduct

Warfare

Crosswords: Strategy

Modern Usage: Strategy

Screenplays

Lyrics

Tongue Twisters

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Strategy

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Strategy

Illustrations:Strategy

Computer Images:Strategy

Photo Album: Strategy

Familiar Quotations: Strategy

Sun Tzu

Virgil

Use in Literature: Strategy

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Strategy

Spoken Usage: Strategy

Christopher Shays

Gennifer Flowers

Rush Limbaugh

Speeches: Strategy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Usage Frequency: Strategy

Expressions: Strategy

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Strategy

Modern Translation: Strategy

Albanian

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German

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Japanese Kanji

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Korean

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Illustrations:
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