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Webster 1913 Edition


Strategist

Strat′e-gist

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
stratégiste
.]
One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.

Definition 2024


strategist

strategist

English

Noun

strategist (plural strategists)

  1. Someone who devises strategies.
    • 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, Killer robots should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
      In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

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