Strategy vs Stratagem - What's the difference?
strategy | stratagem |
The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
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A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
As nouns the difference between strategy and stratagem
is that strategy is the science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare while stratagem is a tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.strategy
English
(wikipedia strategy)Noun
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Usage notes
* Verbs often used with "strategy": drive, follow, pursue, execute, implement, adopt, abandon, accept, reject.Derived terms
* exit strategy * strategic * strategics * strategistCoordinate terms
* (an art of using similar techniques in politics or business) tacticsSee also
* long gameExternal links
* * *stratagem
English
Noun
(en noun)- While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.