strategy
nounHow many syllables in strategy?
There are 3 syllables in the word strategy.How to pronounce strategy:
Definition of strategy:
- strategy (noun):
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action.
- a long-term plan for success, such as in politics or business
- the science and art of military command exercised to meet the enemy in combat under advantageous conditions
- the science and art of employing the political, economic, psychological, and military forces of a nation or group of nations to afford the maximum support to adopted policies in peace or war
Synonyms for strategy:
approach
arrangement
blueprint
bubble
contrivance
counterterrorism
design
dodge
game
game plan
grand design
ground plan
house of cards
idea
incentive program
incentive scheme
manoeuvring
master plan
plan
plan of action
planning
playbook
plot
policy
procedure
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Antonyms for strategy:
ad-lib
ad-libbing
autoschediasm
compulsion
creativeness
extemporisation
extemporization
improvisation
impulse
instinct
inventiveness
lateral thinking
spontaneity
Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- precious
- sensitive
- presenter
- eatable
- Zolio
- saleable
- taciturn
- pityingly
- marvelous
- shadowy
- oppressor
- exposure
- threatening
- reincarnate
- malachite
- existent
- abruptly
- simile
- undisturbed
- chrysalis
- aggressive
- fraudulent
- philemon
- breakable
- heuristic
- covenant
- pancetta
- distasteful
- clandestine
- Caribbean
- mockingly
- hardheaded
- agreeance
- maneuvered
- greediness
- thirty five
- sensuous
- hateable
- wickedness
- palatial
- thriftiness
- melodies
- etherized
- agonized
- scampering
- lazily
- formative
- impeded
- saguaro
- grandfather
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