Strat"e*gy (?), n. [Gr. : cf. F. strat'egie. See Stratagem.]
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. -->
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