Stratagem
noun
A plan or trick designed to surprise or outsmart an enemy or opponent.
He devised several stratagems to get out of attending the meeting.
Often appears as...
- devise a stratagem
- cunning stratagem
noun
A plan or trick designed to surprise or outsmart an enemy or opponent.
He devised several stratagems to get out of attending the meeting.
Often appears as...
- devise a stratagem
- cunning stratagem
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Pro Tip 1/3Deceptive Nature
Stratagem often implies clever deception to achieve goals.
His stratagem involved feigning illness to avoid a confrontation.
Pro Tip 2/3Military Context
Stratagem is frequently used in military and combat situations.
The general's stratagem successfully outflanked the enemy forces.
Pro Tip 3/3Clever Planning
A stratagem is often a result of careful thought and planning, not random chance.
She employed a stratagem to secure the best deal during negotiations.
Pro Tip 1/3Deceptive Nature
Stratagem often implies clever deception to achieve goals.
His stratagem involved feigning illness to avoid a confrontation.
Pro Tip 2/3Military Context
Stratagem is frequently used in military and combat situations.
The general's stratagem successfully outflanked the enemy forces.
Pro Tip 3/3Clever Planning
A stratagem is often a result of careful thought and planning, not random chance.
She employed a stratagem to secure the best deal during negotiations.
Pro Tip 1/3Deceptive Nature
Stratagem often implies clever deception to achieve goals.
His stratagem involved feigning illness to avoid a confrontation.
Pro Tip 2/3Military Context
Stratagem is frequently used in military and combat situations.
The general's stratagem successfully outflanked the enemy forces.
Pro Tip 3/3Clever Planning
A stratagem is often a result of careful thought and planning, not random chance.
She employed a stratagem to secure the best deal during negotiations.
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Paola Antonelli: Why I...
so you cannot do away with it. But interestingly, this choice was not condemned too vehemently by gamers. I was afraid that they would kill us, and instead they understood, especially when I told them that I was trying to apply the same stratagem
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Paola Antonelli: Why I...
so you cannot do away with it. But interestingly, this choice was not condemned too vehemently by gamers. I was afraid that they would kill us, and instead they understood, especially when I told them that I was trying to apply the same stratagem
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See How Dancing Helps...
Barton Helios Kuno stratagem Montek you yet okay kandi mama a friend indeed madam
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Quote examples
Yanis Varoufakis
Greek Politician
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Will Self
English Author
Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.
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Washington Irving
American Writer
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Harold Pinter
English Dramatist
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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Rex Stout
American Writer
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
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Yanis Varoufakis
Greek Politician
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Quote examples
Will Self
English Author
Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.
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Washington Irving
American Writer
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Harold Pinter
English Dramatist
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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Rex Stout
American Writer
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
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