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strategy meaning

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  • Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a high level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty.
  • Strategy is important because the resources available to achieve these goals are usually limited. Strategy generally involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing resources to execute the actions.
  • Henry Mintzberg from McGill University defined strategy as "a pattern in a stream of decisions" to contrast with a view of strategy as planning,
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    Definition of strategy in English Dictionary

  • NounPLstrategies
    1. The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
      1. A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
        1. “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ?  Why didn’t I telephone ?  Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”
      2. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) The art of using similar techniques in politics or business.
      3. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • I hate to rain on your parade, but lots of people have tried that strategy and it hasn't worked yet.
          • These guidelines have also addressed pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies for risk factor modification.
          • The byproducts of our study are a strategy to improve the change and project management in intersectoral collaboration and a large repertoire of managerial working methods and instruments.
        2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
          • Strategies and policies help managers plan by guiding operating decisions and often premaking them.
        3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • The characterization of hormonal receptors, in particular PR, opened new ways towards antiprogestogens as therapeutic strategies.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Countable nouns
            • Singularia tantum
              • Uncountable nouns
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          Meaning of strategy for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "strategy" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
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