Crossword clues for strategist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strategist \Strat"e*gist\, n. [Cf. F. strat['e]giste.] One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1838, from French stratégiste, from stratégie (see strategy).
Wiktionary
n. Someone who devises strategy.
WordNet
n. an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) [syn: strategian]
Wikipedia
A strategist is a person with responsibility for the formulation and implementation of a strategy. Strategy generally involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing resources to execute the actions. A strategy describes how the ends (goals) will be achieved by the means (resources). The senior leadership of an organization is generally tasked with determining strategy. Strategy can be intended or can emerge as a pattern of activity as the organization adapts to its environment or competes. It involves activities such as strategic planning and strategic thinking.
Usage examples of "strategist".
MUD games, a supreme strategist - Phate knew that there was only one thing to do when the enemy has a near success.
The directors of the Populist campaign proved to be no mean political strategists.
Lieutenant Repro gave Hope the next name on his list: the most brilliant unrecognized military strategist of the century, doomed to nonentity because of lack of political connections, wrong color, and wrong gender: Lt.
Could the commander possibly assume that he, Rohan, would come up with something better, more perfect than the scientists, than the cyberneticists and the strategists with their electronic computers to help them?
Cheerleader, strategist, and guiding light of the cyberpunks, Bruce Sterling always exhibited an extraliterary side to his activities.
During class one day, he went into one of his little detours, talking about Mao as a brilliant political strategist.
She portrayed Chairman Mao as the greatest political strategist ever, a man who could out-manoeuvre all his political enemies.
Dolores and Quilty write the rules for the games in the central section of Part Two, where she emerges as the successful strategist and playmaker, with skills that leave Humbert floundering as the crazed victim.
On the morrow he would have to ride to the northernmost reaches of Nether, to seek out the hold of Prince Volvn, his best general and the wiliest strategist in the realm.
Sir Bosquecel led the line, followed by Sir Alard and the other first-rank knights, then the middle-rank knights, then the sentry-rank knights, and at the rear, the elderly or battle-maimed knights who no longer rode to war but served light duties as door guards and strategists.
With manpower at a premium, France's military strategists turned away from the idea of aggressive response and counterattack.
The Bob Robertson who left his kitchen strewn with dirty dishes, banana peels, and crumbs was too sloppy to be a wise strategist.
He's an analyst and one of the best, but he is not qualified to be a case officer, to say nothing of a station chief, and don't even consider his being the strategist behind a major covert operation.
The thirteenth Dalai Lama proved deficient as a political strategist.
When He Was A Nato Adviser, August Had Spent Time With A Former Nypd Emergency Service Chief Of Department Who Had Briefed Nato Strategists On Hostage Situations.