strategy

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strategy /ˈstratɪdʒi/

▶noun (pl. strategies)

• 1 a plan designed to achieve a particular long-term aim.

• 2 the art of planning and directing military activity in a war or battle. Often contrasted with tactics (see tactic).

  ■ a plan so devised.

– derivatives
strategist noun,
strategize (or strategise) verb (N. Amer.).

– origin C19: from Fr. stratégie, from Gk stratēgia ‘generalship’, from stratēgos (see stratagem).