strategy

Noun
  1. An elaborate and systematic plan of action (synset 105913942)
    is a type of: plan of action - a plan for actively doing something
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: scheme
  2. The branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war (synset 106259307)
    referred to in: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation
    is a type of: military science - the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare

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