Strategy vs Calculate - What's the difference?
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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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(mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
(mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
(intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
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, title= To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
* (William Shakespeare)
To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
* Archbishop Tillotson
As a noun strategy
is the science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.As a verb calculate is
to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.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
* * *calculate
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Verb
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- A cunning man did calculate my birth.
- [Religion] is calculated for our benefit.
