strategy

plural strategies

1. uncountableThe science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.

   “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”

   1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

2. countableA plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.

   Oftentimes, the very simple strategies pay very great dividends.

   1 more example

   Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.

   2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7

3. uncountableThe act of strategizing; the development of effective strategies.