strategy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an elaborate and systematic plan of action
    scheme.
  2. noun the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

WordNet

Strat"e*gy noun
Etymology
Gr. : cf. F. stratégie. See Stratagem.
Definitions
  1. The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
  2. The use of stratagem or artifice.
  3. a plan of action encompassing the methods to be adopted from beginning to end of a task or endeavor, focussing on the general methods; -- contrasted with tactics, which is a plan for accomplishing subgoals of lesser extent than the primary goal. Thus, a strategy is a plan for winning a war, and a tactic is a plan for winning a battle.
  4. Biol. A behavior evolved and exhibited by a living organism to accomplish some important goal, as a foraging strategy.

Webster 1913