Webster's English Dictionary

Enter the word to look up:

strategy

Cross references:
  1. tactics               
 
strat.e.gy \-je-\ n [Gk strate-gia generalship, fr. strate-gos] 1a1: the 
   science and art of employing the political, economic, psychologica l, and 
   military forces of a nation or group of nations to afford the maximum 
   support to adopted policies in peace or war 1a2: the science and art of 
   military command exercised to meet the enemy in  combat under advantageous 
   conditions 1b: a variety of or instance of the use of strategy  2a: a 
   careful plan or method : a clever stratagem  2b: the art of devising or 
   employing plans or stratagems toward a goal