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strategy | textbook |

As nouns the difference between strategy and textbook

is that strategy is the science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare while textbook is a coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

As an adjective textbook is

of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.

strategy

English

(wikipedia strategy)

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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  • The art of using similar techniques in politics or business.

    • Usage notes

    * Verbs often used with "strategy": drive, follow, pursue, execute, implement, adopt, abandon, accept, reject.

    Derived terms

    * exit strategy * strategic * strategics * strategist

    Related terms

    * stratagem

    Coordinate terms

    * (an art of using similar techniques in politics or business) tactics

    See also

    * long game

    External links

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    textbook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
  • * 1917 , George Ransom Twiss, A textbook in the principles of science teaching?
    • It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning.
  • * 2000 , Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence?
    • They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.
  • * 2004 , David Henn, Old Spain and new Spain: the travel narratives of Camilo José Cela?
    • ...a kind of descriptive account or a social, geographical, anthropological, or historical commentary that may at times have a certain textbook tone to it.
  • Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
  • * 1997 , Alexander De Waal, Famine crimes: politics and the disaster relief industry in Africa?
    • It was a textbook case of how prompt government action could avert a major crisis.
  • * 2003 , Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay?
    • Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook , its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic...
  • * 2003 , Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy?
    • In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "textbook")