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English

Alternative forms

• paradigma

Etymology

Established 1475-85 from Late Latin parad?gma, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parádeigma, “pattern”), from ???????????? (paradeíknumi, “I show [beside] or compare”) + -?? (-ma, “forming nouns concerning the results of actions”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæ.??.da?m/
• (US) enPR: ?pär.?.d?m, IPA^(key): /?pæ?.?.da?m/, /?p??.?.da?m/, /?pe??.?.da?m/

  (Mary–marry–merry merger)

Noun

paradigm (plural paradigms or paradigmata)

1. A pattern, a way of doing something, especially (now often derogatory) a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.

   Synonyms: model, worldview

2. An example serving as the model for such a pattern.

   Synonyms: template, exemplar, posterboy

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3. (linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.

Synonyms

• (exemplar): Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model

Hyponyms

• programming paradigm

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “paradigm”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “paradigm” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "paradigm" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (strat?gía, “office of general, command, generalship”), from ????????? (strat?gós, “the leader or commander of an army, a general”), from ??????? (stratós, “army”) + ??? (ág?, “I lead, I conduct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?æt?d?i/

Noun

strategy (countable and uncountable, plural strategies)

1. The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
2. A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
3. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) The use of advance planning to succeed in politics or business.

Usage notes

• Verbs often used with "strategy": drive, follow, pursue, execute, implement, adopt, abandon, accept, reject, create.

Synonyms

• generalship

Coordinate terms

• (an art of using similar techniques in politics or business): tactics

Derived terms

Related terms

• stratagem
• strategus

Translations

See also

• long game

Further reading

• strategy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• strategy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• strategy at OneLook Dictionary Search