stratagem
IPA: strˈætʌdʒʌm
noun
- A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
- Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.
- (uncountable) Military deception or artifice.
- (uncountable) Cunning and artifice in general.
- (obsolete) A violent deed.
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Examples of "stratagem" in Sentences
- The famous Duguesclin is said to have taken the town by stratagem from the English.
- The word "Strategy" is a military term derives from the Greek word "stratagem" which means
- The stratagem is related by the author of the Gesta Francorum, the monk Robert Baldric, and Raymond des
- If this adjustment in stratagem saved the lives or mission of just one crew, I would be thankful to God.
- Can regulators distinguish this kind of stratagem from the case of fair and justified engineering decisions that happen to cause a little temporary jitter?
- The stratagem is a good one, and I dare say some hundreds of men will be added to the encamped army, while certain unconscious diplomatists are sipping their coffee, and complacently gazing at these fiery devices.
- It's a typical Carter stratagem, which is nothing less than a view of the world where musical lines, like individual lives, intersect at changing speeds in endlessly changing contexts and sometimes, maybe only for a moment, come together.
- Our 'stratagem' -- I have always liked the word, ever since I read _Tales of a Grandfather_, which I thought a great take-in, as it's just a history book, neither more nor less, and the only exciting part is when you come upon stratagems -- succeeded.
- To move from theory toward the concrete, for years in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, I've seen Anglo social workers go after certain Chicano families — do so as agents of county officials who have discovered that such a stratagem is a damn good way to intimidate activist Chicano migrants.
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