PLAN OF ATTACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plan of attack mean? 

• PLAN OF ATTACK (noun)
  The noun PLAN OF ATTACK has 1 sense:

1. ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

  Familiarity information: PLAN OF ATTACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAN OF ATTACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

approach; attack; plan of attack

Context example:

his plan of attack was misguided

Hypernyms ("plan of attack" is a kind of...):

conceptualisation; conceptualization; formulation (inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plan of attack"):

avenue (a line of approach)

 Context examples 

We should have ready some plan of attack, so that we may throw away no chance.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Researchers have devised a new plan of attack against a group of deadly childhood brain cancers collectively called diffuse midline gliomas (DMG), including diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), thalamic glioma and spinal cord glioma.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

With a swift glance around the room, he at once laid out our plan of attack, and, without speaking a word, with a gesture, placed us each in position.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was a pity that we had not some better organised plan of attack, for even at the moment I wondered what we were to do.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)