| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | strat·a·gem |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  str t  -jm |
| NOUN: | 1. A military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise an enemy. 2. A clever, often underhanded scheme for achieving an objective. See synonyms at wile. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French stratageme, from Old Italian stratagemma, from Latin strat gma, from Greek, from stratgein, to be a general, from stratgos, general : stratos, army; see ster-2 in Appendix I + agein, to lead; see ag- in Appendix I.
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