Synonyms:
scheme, strategy
Meaning: an elaborate and systematic plan of action
Usage examples
CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
Now he tried the same strategy in the operations around Colesburg--and paved the way for later victory.
The simplest strategy seems to be--never bother to fight a thing: set its own parts fighting one another.
But they've been beaming those paths so hard, it looks as though they even had information of this strategy.
But they've been beaming those paths so hard, it looks as though they even had information of this strategy.
What she taught him of tennis on the royal courts, in the presence of an amused audience, was as nothing to what he learned of strategy as it can be practiced by a whimsical girl.
He was a master of strategy and tactics, fearless of responsibility, able to instil into his men his own intense ardor in battle, and so quick in his movements, so ready to march as well as fight, that his troops were known to the rest of the army as the "foot cavalry."
"Is it from these small, dark, dingy buildings that those infallible laws proceed which cabinets are called upon to obey; by which bishops are to be guided, lords and commons controlled, judges instructed in law, generals in strategy, admirals in naval tactics, and orange-women in the management of their barrows?" "Yes, my friend--from these walls.
But, since such treatment gives a totally false idea of his achievement, this little sketch, drawn straight from original sources, tries to show him as he really was, a co-worker with the British fleet in a war based entirely on naval strategy and inseparably connected with international affairs of world-wide significance. The only simplification attempted here is that of arrangement and expression.