{
    "term": "strategy",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a plan that is intended to achieve a particular purpose",
            "sensetop": "strategy for doing somethingstrategy to do something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the government’s economic strategy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to devise **an effective** long-term **strategy**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Often, individuals employ multiple **coping strategies** because one particular strategy is not sufficient"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **adopt/implement/pursue a strategy**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **develop a strategy** for dealing with unemployment",
                    "contextForm": "strategy for doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's all part of an overall strategy to gain promotion.",
                    "contextForm": "strategy to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A coherent strategy for getting more people back to work needs to be developed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He pretended that resigning was part of his long-term career strategy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her rudeness was a deliberate strategy to provoke him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is certainly a strategy worth exploring."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The charity is drawing up a strategy to meet the needs of homeless people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The committee drew up a draft strategy for dealing with future floods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company adopted aggressive marketing strategies to sell its products."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company will now focus its strategy on its core business areas."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company's financial strategy is not working."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The document sets out the government's new strategy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has employed a dual strategy to achieve these two objectives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The money is earmarked for the development of new product and sales strategies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their overall strategy is good, but one or two of the details could be improved."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their single-minded pursuit of this controversial strategy led to their fall from power."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This strategy relies on property prices continuing to rise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We all have different coping strategies for times of stress."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a comprehensive strategy towards regional development"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a customer-oriented business strategy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a global marketing strategy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a key strategy to increase sales"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a strategy aimed at reducing the risk of accidents"
                },
                {
                    "text": "resource management strategies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the key idea in their strategy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the party's strategy on poverty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to develop an effective strategy for change"
                },
                {
                    "text": "As a business strategy, this is unlikely to work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has developed a strategy for dealing with regional unemployment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their overall strategy is quite good, but they need to change some of the details."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What strategies will you use to achieve this goal?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "New product development strategies were presented to the committee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This has been part of the Democratic Party campaign strategy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Marketing techniques used to implement the strategies are provided."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are trying to devise a strategy for preventing the disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Make good communications a key part of your strategy for success."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["effective", "good", "sound"],
                "verb + strategy": ["have", "design", "develop"],
                "strategy + verb": [
                    "be based on something",
                    "be aimed at something",
                    "be designed to do something"
                ],
                "strategy + noun": ["development", "formulation", "meeting"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the strategy", "strategy for", "strategy on"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a change in strategy",
                    "the adoption of a strategy",
                    "the development of a strategy"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the process of planning something or putting a plan into operation",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Poor **marketing strategy** was blamed for the failure of the service to catch on."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The coming year may herald a change in strategy for major publishers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The committee is meeting today in Washington to plot strategy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They called a meeting to discuss investment strategy."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["effective", "good", "sound"],
                "verb + strategy": ["have", "design", "develop"],
                "strategy + verb": [
                    "be based on something",
                    "be aimed at something",
                    "be designed to do something"
                ],
                "strategy + noun": ["development", "formulation", "meeting"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the strategy", "strategy for", "strategy on"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a change in strategy",
                    "the adoption of a strategy",
                    "the development of a strategy"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the skill of planning the movements of armies in a battle or war; an example of doing this",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "military strategy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "defence strategies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They're pursuing a strategy of massive retaliation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a strategy game set during the Civil War"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Agreeing to meet the rebels is obviously a high-risk strategy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The army's strategy and tactics were highly aggressive."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["War and conflict"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["effective", "good", "sound"],
                "verb + strategy": ["have", "design", "develop"],
                "strategy + verb": [
                    "be based on something",
                    "be aimed at something",
                    "be designed to do something"
                ],
                "strategy + noun": ["development", "formulation", "meeting"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the strategy", "strategy for", "strategy on"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a change in strategy",
                    "the adoption of a strategy",
                    "the development of a strategy"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈstrætədʒi/",
                "audio": "st/strategy/strategy__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈstrætədʒi/",
                "audio": "st/strategy/strategy__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 19th cent.: from French stratégie, from Greek stratēgia ‘generalship’, from stratēgos, from stratos ‘army’ + agein ‘to lead’."
}