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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
strategize

1874, from strategy + -ize. Related: Strategized; strategizing.

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strategize

vb. To formulate a strategy.

Usage examples of "strategize".

Whether Jack was guilty or innocent, Lonnie would hustle up every shred of exculpatory evidence and plot, plan, maneuver, and strategize to establish his defense.

Meals could be taken in the large and comfortably furnished dayroom, where the staff not only ate but also did their household planning, spent their coffee breaks, and strategized all arrangements for the elaborate parties often held when the Face was in residence.

We've strategized how to implement this true merger to the benefit of all involved—not just for this season, but for the season a hundred years from now.

Trader wiped his flabby lips with a greasy napkin and strategized quickly.

His survival in the dangerous game of bounty hunting hadn't been based on coldly rational strategizing alone.

His grunting is way more annoying than his strategizing the hell out of me.

This week is the trenches: flesh-pressing, fundraising, traveling, poll-taking, strategizing, grinding out eight-event days in Michigan and Georgia and New York and SC.

Everything he'd been working for, planning for, strategizing for over the past few years had just been robbed from him.

More than the obscene amounts of money he made every time he wheeled a deal, it was the deal itself—the planning, the strategizing, the negotiating, that engaged his interests and energies.

They walked around the corner, just out of his range of vision, and began to strategize on how to get the train ticket.

A watering hole where neighbors met to strategize about a traffic light they were circulating a petition for .