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STRATEGIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does strategist mean?
• STRATEGIST (noun)
The noun STRATEGIST has 1 sense:
1. an expert in strategy (especially in warfare)
Familiarity information: STRATEGIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An expert in strategy (especially in warfare)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
strategian; strategist
Hypernyms ("strategist" is a kind of...):
contriver; deviser; planner (a person who makes plans)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strategist"):
market strategist (someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns)
Derivation:
strategy (an elaborate and systematic plan of action)
strategy (the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war)
Context examples
But the novice was a strategist as well as a man of action.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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