STRATEGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strategy mean? 

• STRATEGY (noun)
  The noun STRATEGY has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: STRATEGY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRATEGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An elaborate and systematic plan of action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

scheme; strategy

Hypernyms ("strategy" is a kind of...):

plan of action (a plan for actively doing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strategy"):

contrivance; dodge; stratagem (an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade)

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)

bubble; house of cards (a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control)

playbook (a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign)

game; plot; secret plan (a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal))

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)

incentive program; incentive scheme (a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something)

Derivation:

strategic; strategical (relating to or concerned with strategy)

strategist (an expert in strategy (especially in warfare))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("strategy" is a kind of...):

military science (the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Derivation:

strategic (highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war)

strategic; strategical (relating to or concerned with strategy)

strategist (an expert in strategy (especially in warfare))

 Context examples 

This new molecular genetic finding could lead to strategies for cancer treatments that target these specific molecules.

(New Genes Found Responsible for Regulating Muscle Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Blocking CAR activation with an antagonist protects against acetaminophen liver toxicity, suggesting a strategy to treat acetaminophen toxicity.

(Acetaminophen Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A treatment strategy that consists of drug administrations with rules for modifying doses.

(Defined Subject Activity Group, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Use of conscious or unconscious strategies or mechanisms in adapting to stress.

(Coping skills, NCI Thesaurus)

The user-fee strategy could also decrease antibiotic use by 30 per cent.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

Support research strategies for promoting effective health care utilization among persons with HIV infection

(Consequences of HIV, NCI Thesaurus)

Support research strategies for promoting effective health care utilization among persons with HIV infection.

(Coordination and Collaboration, NCI Thesaurus)

This means that such a drug could potentially be used to induce stemness in T cells as a strategy to enhance cancer immunotherapies.

(Harnessing T-cell “stemness” could enhance cancer immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)

For now, set strategy and decide on your tactics to realize your goal.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

OTHER NAME(S):visit, time point, study segment, course, treatment strategy, period, cycle.

(Planned Subject Activity Group, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)