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STRATEGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An elaborate and systematic plan of action
Synonyms:
scheme; strategy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("strategy" is a kind of...):
plan of action (a plan for actively doing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strategy"):
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)
Derivation:
strategic; strategical (relating to or concerned with strategy)
strategist (an expert in strategy (especially in warfare))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("strategy" is a kind of...):
military science (the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Derivation:
strategic (highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war)
strategic; strategical (relating to or concerned with strategy)
strategist (an expert in strategy (especially in warfare))
Context examples:
The study’s findings suggest potential strategies for preventing asthma.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
The severity of the phenotype may depend on the AHSP genotype of these individuals and elevating AHSP levels through gene therapy may provide a treatment strategy for beta-thalassemia.
(Hemoglobin Chaperone Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The strategy uses molecules called small interfering RNA (siRNA).
(Lipid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Treats Ebola in Monkeys, NIH)
The findings define how TTLL7 interacts with microtubules and how members of the TTLL family use common strategies to mark microtubules with glutamate tags.
(Scientists unravel the mystery of the tubulin code, NIH)
Furthermore, they indicate that the most effective strategies are those in which the educator helps the child to reflect on his or her learning process.
(Study reveals attention training improves intelligence and brain function of children, University of Granada)
Provides a short, individually administered assessment of the strategies and processes involved in learning and recall of verbal material.
(California Verbal Learning Test, Children's Version, NCI Thesaurus)
A trained counselor can help you develop strategies to regain a feeling of control.
(Coping with Chronic Illness, NIH)
These new insights into pathogenesis are, in turn, stimulating new preventive strategies against disease such as the development of new vaccines against a variety of pathogens.
(New Approaches to Pathogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)
Any of various amplification and detection strategies applied to detection of virus contamination in donor blood.
(Nucleic Acid Amplification Test, NCI Thesaurus)
However, some bacteria have strategies to escape the bactericidal mechanisms associated with phagocytosis and survive within host phagocytes.
(Phagocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
