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hey guys i dont believe that you can use the word strategy in the sentence if the sentence is talking about no competition.because the word strategy came from military term,so that means you can only use this word in the sentence if your sentence has a competition.what do you think guys?...help me with this all right?..im dying to know the truth.

what the heck are you trying to say?

what part of life isn't a competition though?

It's quite simple, really. The word "strategy" comes from the Latin word "strategeri" literally meaning "to strategerize" or to "use strategery".

I thought this stuff was common knowledge in chess circles. *shrugs*

That doesn't make much sense, you can use the word strategy with no competition and vise versa. this is true because strategy is not limited to competing with another person. for example: I can make a strategy for reading a book. I am not competing, but planning a way to acomplish my goal.

its a military term and the standard is it use only if their is a war,competion.

estevon....strategy in general you can use it in many ways.but if you talking about specifically you cannot use it in the sentence if the topic of your sentence has no competition and this is a word standard okay?

latin makes me hungry...

Nope. That's why we have the word strategery.

estevon,first you have to define the word competiton okay?

Here is the Dictionary definition that shows there is no need for war or competition in the word strategy

strat⋅e⋅gy

 
–noun, plural -gies.

i know that already hazenfelts,but if you look up to encyclopiadia .com you will find out that its originated in military and some bussiness they use it because they are disperate.in general you can use it but in the specipic and word standard you cannot.

If I said financial strategy it wouldn't refer to WAR

"Man cannot live on bread Alone"  jesus's strategy agaisnt the devil, Quote what is written.

for me you can use strategy in general okay?.but if talking about specifically you cannot use it without competition or war.

The meaning of words can change as language evolves or at least cultures change somewhat. Gay for example meant to be happy and joyful now it seems to mean liking the same sex as u. Many other examples can be given, take what i been learning on ancient Hebrew vs modern Hebrew. Some words are no longer used or the context of the word doesn't have quite the same meaning. I believe this is the same with the concept of what strategy means too....

little is totally right :)

thank you littleman but if you look to the encyclopedia .com,you will see that some people copy this word because they are desperate to use this.this what the explanation of the encyclopedia .com.

what??? this topic is pointless.

i think we need a english teacher about this.but for me you can use the word strategy in general but in specific you cannot used it.