strategy

English

Etymology

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, “I lead, I conduct”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstɹæt.ə.d͡ʒi/
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Noun

strategy (countable and uncountable, plural strategies)

(uncountable) The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
- 1913, [1]:
  “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. …”
(countable) A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
Oftentimes, the very simple strategies pay very great dividends.
- 2013 May-June, American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
  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 crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
(uncountable) The act of strategizing; the development of effective strategies.

Synonyms

generalship

Coordinate terms

(an art of using similar techniques in politics or business): tactics

Derived terms

Related terms

Collocations

Verbs often used with "strategy"

drive, follow, pursue, execute, implement, adopt, abandon, accept, reject, create

Translations

science and art of military command

Albanian: strategji (sq) f
Arabic: إِسْتْرَاتِيجِيَّة f (ʔistrātījiyya)
Armenian: ռազմավարություն (hy) (ṙazmavarutʻyun)
Azerbaijani: strategiya (az), sövqülceyş
Basque: estrategia
Belarusian: стратэ́гія f (stratéhija)
Bulgarian: страте́гия f (stratégija)
Burmese: မဟာဗျူဟာ (my) (nany:byuha)
Catalan: estratègia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 戰略 / 战略 (zh) (zhànlüè)
Czech: strategie (cs) f
Danish: strategi (da) c
Dutch: strategie (nl) f
Esperanto: strategio
Estonian: strateegia
Finnish: strategia (fi)
French: stratégie (fr) f
Galician: estratexia f
Georgian: სტრატეგია (sṭraṭegia)
German: Strategie (de) f
Greek: στρατηγική (el) f (stratigikí)
Hebrew: אַסְטְרָטֶגְיָה (he) f (astratégya)
Hindi: रणनीति (hi) f (raṇnīti)
Hungarian: stratégia (hu)
Indonesian: strategi (id)
Italian: strategia (it) f
Japanese: 兵法 (ja) (せんりゃく, senryaku)
Kazakh: стратегия (strategiä)
Khmer: យុទ្ធសាស្ត្រ (km) (yutthĕəʼsaah)
Korean: 병법(兵法) (ko) (jeollyak)
Kyrgyz: стратегия (ky) (strategiya)
Lao: ຍຸດທະສາດ (nyut tha sāt)
Latin: ars bellica
Latvian: stratēģija f
Lithuanian: strategija (lt) f
Macedonian: стратегија f (strategija)
Malay: strategi
Malayalam: തന്ത്രം (ml) (tantraṁ)
Maori: rautaki
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: стратеги (mn) (strategi)

Mongolian: ᠰᠲ᠋ᠷᠠᠲ᠋ᠧᠭᠢ (stratēgi)
Norman: stratégie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: strategi (no) m

Nynorsk: strategi m
Persian: راهبرد (fa) (esterâteži), سوق‌الجیش (sowq-ol-jeyš)
Polish: strategia (pl) f
Portuguese: estratégia (pt) f
Romanian: strategie (ro) f
Russian: страте́гия (ru) f (stratégija)
Scottish Gaelic: ro-innleachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: стра̀те̄гија f

Roman: stràtēgija (sh) f
Sicilian: stratiggìa f
Slovak: stratégia f
Slovene: strategija (sl) f
Spanish: estrategia (es)
Swedish: strategi (sv) c
Tagalog: patigayon
Tajik: стратегия (strategiya), роҳбурд (rohburd), савқулҷайш (savquljayš)
Thai: ยุทธศาสตร์ (th) (yút-tá-sàat)
Turkish: strateji (tr)
Turkmen: strategiýa
Ukrainian: страте́гія (uk) f (stratéhija)
Uzbek: strategiya (uz)
Vietnamese: chiến lược (vi)
Yiddish: סטראַטעגיע f (strategye)
Zulu: isu class 5/6, icebo (zu) class 5/6, iqhinga class 5/6

plan of action

Arabic: إِسْتْرَاتِيجِيَّة f (ʔistrātījiyya)
Bulgarian: страте́гия (stratégija)
Burmese: နည်းဗျူဟာ (my) (nany:byuha)
Catalan: estratègia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 戰略 / 战略 (zh) (cèlüè)
Czech: strategie (cs) f
Danish: strategi (da) c
Dutch: strategie (nl) f
Esperanto: strategio
Estonian: tegevusplaan
Finnish: toimintasuunnitelma (fi)
French: stratégie (fr) f
German: Strategie (de) f
Greek: στρατηγική (el) f (stratigikí)
Hebrew: אַסְטְרָטֶגְיָה (he) f (astratégya)
Hungarian: stratégia (hu)
Interlingua: strategia
Irish: straitéis f (technical)
Italian: strategia (it) f
Japanese: 策略 (ja) (きりゃく, kiryaku)
Latin: strategema, dolus
Malay: strategi
Malayalam: തന്ത്രം (ml) (tantraṁ)
Maori: rautaki
Norman: stratégie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: strategi (no) m

Nynorsk: strategi m
Persian: راهبرد (fa) (esterâteži)
Plautdietsch: Äwalaj f
Polish: strategia (pl) f
Portuguese: estratégia (pt) f
Romanian: strategie (ro) f
Russian: страте́гия (ru) f (stratégija)
Scottish Gaelic: ro-innleachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: стра̀те̄гија f

Roman: stràtēgija (sh) f
Sicilian: stratiggìa f
Spanish: estrategia (es) f
Swahili: mbinu (sw)
Swedish: strategi (sv) c
Tagalog: patigayon
Thai: ยุทธศาสตร์ (th) (yút-tá-sàat)
Turkish: strateji (tr)
Zulu: isu class 5/6, icebo (zu) class 5/6, iqhinga class 5/6

techniques in politics or business

Arabic: إِسْتْرَاتِيجِيَّة f (ʔistrātījiyya)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 戰略 / 战略 (zh) (zhànlüè)
Czech: strategie (cs) f
Dutch: strategie (nl)
Estonian: strateegia
Finnish: strategia (fi), strateginen suunnittelu
French: stratégie (fr) f
German: Strategie (de) f
Greek: στρατηγική (el) f (stratigikí)
Hebrew: אַסְטְרָטֶגְיָה (he) f (astratégya)
Hungarian: stratégia (hu)
Italian: strategia (it) f
Japanese: 戦略 (ja) (sakuryaku), 計略 (ja) (keiryaku)
Maori: rautaki
Norman: stratégie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: strategi (no) m

Nynorsk: strategi m
Persian: راهبرد (fa) (esterâteži)
Portuguese: estratégia (pt) f
Russian: страте́гия (ru) f (stratégija)
Scottish Gaelic: ro-innleachd f
Serbo-Croatian: strategija (sh) f
Sicilian: stratiggìa f
Spanish: estrategia (es) f
Swedish: strategi (sv) c
Tagalog: patigayon
Thai: ยุทธศาสตร์ (th) (yút-tá-sàat)

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Telugu: ^{(please verify)} వ్యూహం (te) (vyūhaṁ) (1,2,3)