Stratagems Synonyms

A method of deploying troops and equipment in combat
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tactics
  2. maneuvers
A scheme or maneuver designed to achieve an objective, as in surprising an enemy or deceiving someone.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wiles

Stratagems Sentence Examples

  • Various stratagems had been devised to conceal the withdrawals from the Ottoman Army.

  • To penetrate this shield, the person has first to bring to the surface his psychological stratagems by identifying with them.

  • It is not strictly confined to warlike stratagems, but includes also examples of wisdom, courage and cunning drawn from civil and political life.

  • When the Parthian War (162-5) broke out, Polyaenus, too old to share in the campaign, dedicated to the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus a work, still extant, called Strategica or Strategemata, a historical collection of stratagems and maxims of strategy written in Greek and strung together in the form of anecdotes.

  • The stratagems and disguises by which with the help of a few faithful friends he slew the suitors are described at length in the Odyssey.

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