strategy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A plan of action made to reach a particular goal.

   The company developed a new strategy to attract younger customers.

2. 2
   noun

   The art of planning and directing military operations in a war.

   The general was admired for his brilliant battlefield strategy.

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Simplified etymology

Strategy comes from Greek strategia, originally the office or command of a general and later a province governed by a strategos, “general” or “chief magistrate.” Strategos was formed from stratos, “army,” and agein, “to lead”; by the late 18th century strategy had acquired its modern military sense of planning the broad movements and long-term aims of a campaign.

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, “to lead, conduct”).

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