Noun

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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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“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. …”}}

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The art of using similar techniques in politics or business.

Noun

(trickeries)

(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.

* 1852 , , Bleak House , ch. 1:

In trickery , evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.

(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.

(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.}}

(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.

* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 47:

[H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.

* 1898 , , "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow :

The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.