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| Main Entry: | strategy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan of action |
| Synonyms: | action, angle, approach, artifice, blueprint*, craft, cunning, design, game, game plan*, gimmick, layout, method, plan, planning, policy, procedure, program, project, proposition, racket*, scenario, scene, scheme, setup, slant, story, subtlety, system, tactics, brainchild, grand design, maneuvering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | administration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management of an organization or effort |
| Synonyms: | agency, application, authority, charge, command, conduct, control, direction, dispensation, disposition, distribution, enforcement, execution, governing, government, guidance, handling, jurisdiction, legislation, order, organization, oversight, performance, policy, power, provision, regulation, rule, running, strategy, supervision, surveillance, administering, conducting, directing, overseeing, superintendence |
| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | administration |
| Synonyms: | care, charge, control, direction, execution, guidance, handling, leadership, management, manipulation, organization, oversight, plan, policy, posture, red tape*, regimen, regulation, rule, running, strategy, supervision, tactics, transaction, treatment, carrying on, channels, intendance, superintendence, wielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | craft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit, scheme |
| Synonyms: | art, artifice, contrivance, cunning, duplicity, guile, ruse, shrewdness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, subtlety, trickery, artfulness, cageyness, canniness, craftiness, disingenuity, foxiness, slyness, wiles, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, openness |
| Main Entry: | device |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ploy, scheme, maneuver |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cabal, chicanery, craft, design, dodge, evasion, expedient, fake, feint, finesse, gambit, game, gimmick, improvisation, loophole*, machination, method, pattern, plan, plot, project, proposition, purpose, racket, ruse, shift, stratagem, strategy, stunt, subterfuge, trap, trick, wile, clever move, craftiness, cunningness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dodge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick, feint |
| Synonyms: | contrivance, device, machination, method, plan, plot, ploy, ruse, scheme, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, wile |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resource |
| Synonyms: | contrivance, design, device, dodge, gimmick*, makeshift*, maneuver, means, measure, method, recourse, resort, scheme, shift, step, stopgap*, stratagem, strategy, substitute, surrogate, tactic, trick, band-aid, easy way out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | game |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plot, trick |
| Synonyms: | butt, derision, design, device, hoax, joke, plan, ploy, practical joke, prank, scheme, stratagem, strategy, tactic, object of ridicule |
| Main Entry: | logistics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
| Synonyms: | engineering, organization, planning, strategy, coordination, masterminding, plans, systematization |
| Main Entry: | plan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scheme, design, way of doing things |
| Synonyms: | aim, angle, animus, arrangement, big picture*, contrivance, deal, device, disposition, expedient, game plan, gimmick, idea, intent, intention, layout, machination, meaning, means, method, outline, pattern, picture, platform, plot, policy, procedure, program, project, projection, proposal, proposition, purpose, scenario, stratagem, strategy, suggestion, system, tactics, treatment, trick, undertaking, course of action, ground plan, orderliness |
| Notes: | an elevation is a two-dimensional scale drawing of something as if one were viewing it from one side; a section is a two-dimensional scale drawing of one part or detail of an object or structure; and a plan is a two-dimensional scale drawing showing the view of an object or structure as if one were looking down on it from above |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | policy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | procedure, tactics |
| Synonyms: | action, administration, approach, arrangement, behavior, code, course, custom, design, guideline, line, management, method, order, organization, plan, practice, program, protocol, red tape*, rule, scheme, stratagem, strategy, tenet, theory, channels, polity, the book, the numbers |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | procedure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | process, system for accomplishing something |
| Synonyms: | action, agenda, conduct, course, custom, daily grind, fashion, form, formula, game plan*, gimmick, grind, idea, layout, line, maneuver, measure, method, mode, modus operandi, move, nuts and bolts*, operation, performance, plan, policy, practice, proceeding, program, red tape*, routine, scheme, setup, step, strategy, style, transaction, agendum, channels, polity, the book, the numbers |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | project |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undertaking, work |
| Synonyms: | activity, adventure, affair, aim, assignment, baby*, blueprint*, business, concern, deal, design, enterprise, exploit, feat, game plan, intention, job, matter, occupation, outline, pet*, plan, program, proposal, proposition, scheme, setup, strategy, task, thing*, venture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scheme |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course of action |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, blueprint, chart, contrivance, design, device, diagram, disposition, draft, expedient, game plan, layout, order, outline, pattern, plan, presentation, program, project, proposal, proposition, purpose, schedule, strategy, suggestion, system, tactics, theory, codification, ordering, schema |
| Main Entry: | shift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick, stratagem |
| Synonyms: | artifice, contrivance, craft, device, dodge, equivocation, evasion, expedient, gambit, hoax, makeshift, maneuver, move, ploy, recourse, refuge, resort, resource, ruse, stopgap*, strategy, substitute, subterfuge, wile, expediency |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | system |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | method, plan |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, artifice, custom, fashion, manner, methodology, mode, modus operandi, operation, pattern, policy, practice, procedure, proceeding, process, regularity, routine, scheme, strategy, structure, tactics, technique, theory, usage, way, wise, course of action, definite plan, logical process, methodicalness, modus, orderliness, orderly process, systematic process, systematization |
| Antonyms: | disorder, disorganization |
| Main Entry: | texture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charactertistics of a surface |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, balance, being, character, coarseness, composition, consistency, constitution, disposition, essence, fabric, feel, feeling, fiber, flexibility, form, framework, grain, make, makeup, nap, nature, organization, pattern, quality, roughness, scheme, sense, smoothness, stiffness, strategy, structure, surface, taste, touch, warp, weave, web, essentiality, fineness, intermixture, tissue, woof |
| Main Entry: | treatment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handling of entity, situation |
| Synonyms: | angle, approach, conduct, custom, employment, execution, habit, line, management, manipulation, manner, method, mode, modus operandi, practice, procedure, proceeding, reception, strategy, usage, way, action towards, behavior towards, dealing, processing |
| Main Entry: | warfare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armed conflict |
| Synonyms: | arms, battle, clash, combat, competition, contest, discord, fighting, rivalry, strategy, strife, striving, struggle, war, armed struggle, blows, campaigning, counterinsurgency, emulation, hostilities, military operation, passage of arms, tug-of-war |
| Antonyms: | harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | game plan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought out strategy |
| Synonyms: | approach, blueprint, design, scenario, scheme, strategy, tactics, strategic plan, tactical plan, working plan |
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