stratagem• A stratagem I learnt early in my life was to hoard every emblem of success and destroy all evidence of failure.• As soon as things get tough our enemies have a cleverstratagem.• His stratagem was to crossRiverside Drive and enter the first building, as if he lived there.• Actually, neither stratagem is likely to do much.• As a partialsolution, CombinedFleet decided to resort to a special stratagem that had already worked successfully once before.• They fell for the stratagem and the plot was resumed.• A summary of acutetherapeuticstratagems is provided in Table 3-4.
Originstratagem
(1400-1500)Italianstratagemma, from Latin, from Greekstratagema, from stratagein“to lead an army”, from strategos“general”, from stratos“army” + agein“to lead”