Strategy

n. plans or methods created for the purpose of achieving a goal; science of preparing long-term battle plans (Military)

A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning". Strategy is differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand by its nature of being extensively premeditated, and often practically rehearsed.The word derives from the Greek word stratēgos, which derives from two words: stratos (army) and ago (ancient Greek for leading). Stratēgos referred to a 'military commander' during the age of Athenian Democracy.
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Noun
1. an elaborate and systematic plan of action
(synonym) scheme
(hypernym) plan of action
(hyponym) contrivance, stratagem, dodge
2. the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war
(hypernym) military science
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine

(n.)
The use of stratagem or artifice.
  

(n.)
The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
  

a broad plan of action by which an organisation hopes to achieve one or more of its marketing objectives. See Tactic.