Strategy vs. Suggestion

Strategynoun

The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.

Suggestionnoun

(countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

‘I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.’; ‘Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.’;

Strategynoun

A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.

Suggestionnoun

(uncountable) The act of suggesting.

‘Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.’;

Strategynoun

The use of advance planning to succeed in politics or business.

Suggestionnoun

Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

‘He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.’;

Strategynoun

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

Suggestionnoun

The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.

Strategynoun

The use of stratagem or artifice.

Suggestionnoun

information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence

Strategynoun

an elaborate and systematic plan of action

Suggestionnoun

The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

Strategynoun

the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

Suggestionnoun

That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.

‘Why do I yield to that suggestion?’;

Strategy

Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, ) is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the , which included several subsets of skills including military tactics, siegecraft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century C.E. in Eastern Roman terminology, and was translated into Western vernacular languages only in the 18th century.

‘art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship’; ‘art of the general’;

Suggestionnoun

Charge; complaint; accusation.

Suggestionnoun

Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

Suggestionnoun

The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; - a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.

Suggestionnoun

The control of the mind of an hypnotic subject by ideas in the mind of the hypnotizer.

‘Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.’; ‘Arthur, whom they say is killed to-nightOn your suggestion.’;

Suggestionnoun

an idea that is suggested;

‘the picnic was her suggestion’;

Suggestionnoun

a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection;

‘it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse’;

Suggestionnoun

a just detectable amount;

‘he speaks French with a trace of an accent’;

Suggestionnoun

persuasion formulated as a suggestion

Suggestionnoun

the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association

Suggestionnoun

the act of inducing hypnosis

Suggestion

Suggestion is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another person. Nineteenth-century writers on psychology such as William James used the words and in the context of a particular idea which was said to suggest another when it brought that other idea to mind.

‘suggest’; ‘suggestion’;