A strategy is a general plan or set of plans intended to achieve something, especially over a long period.
Next week, health ministers gather in Amsterdam to agree a strategy for controlling malaria...
What should our marketing strategy have achieved?...
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Strategy is the art of planning the best way to gain an advantage or achieve success, especially in war.
I've just been explaining the basic principles of strategy to my generals.
In politics and business, an exit strategy is a way of ending your involvement in a situation such as a military operation or a business arrangement.
The fear is that we have no exit strategy from this conflict.
bet NASA is hedging its bets and adopting both strategies.
blight ...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas.
blinkered Haig was limited by his blinkered approach to strategy and tactics...
brilliant The strategy worked brilliantly.
carnage ...his strategy for stopping the carnage in Kosovo.
coherent He has failed to work out a coherent strategy for modernising the service...
complementary To improve the quality of life through work, two complementary strategies are necessary...
countervailing Their strategy is expansionist and imperialist, and it is greatest in effect, of course, when there is no countervailing power...
discourse Gates responds with a lengthy discourse on deployment strategy.
disingenuous He disingenuously remarked that he knew nothing about strategy.
draw in Don't let him draw you into his strategy.
emphatically Making people feel foolish is emphatically not my strategy...
exit strategy The fear is that we have no exit strategy from this conflict.
forward Now the leadership wants to look forward, and to outline a strategy for the rest of the century...
hunker Their strategy for the moment is to hunker down and let the fuss die down.
ineffective ...the ineffectiveness of some of the police's anti-crime strategies.
late I'd left it all too late in the day to get anywhere with these strategies.
legislate ...attempts to legislate a national energy strategy.
map out I went home and mapped out my strategy...
march If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour.
moth-eaten This strategy looks increasingly moth-eaten.
off-the-wall It can be done without following some absurd, off-the-wall investment strategy.
ostensible The ostensible purpose of these meetings was to gather information on financial strategies.
pilot We are now piloting through Parliament a new strategy to tackle youth crime.
plot Yesterday's meeting was intended to plot a survival strategy for the party...
prong The second prong of the strategy is the provision of basic social services for the poor.
reappraise It did not persuade them to abandon the war but it did force them to reappraise their strategy.
-'s ...new strategies for the 1990's.
strategy What should our marketing strategy have achieved?...
strategy I've just been explaining the basic principles of strategy to my generals.
strategy Next week, health ministers gather in Amsterdam to agree a strategy for controlling malaria...
target Yuppies are a prime target group for marketing strategies.
tenacious ...a remarkably tenacious belief that was to dominate future theories of military strategy.
walk away The most appropriate strategy may simply be to walk away from the problem...