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Collocations for strategy - noun

ADJ.

effective, good, successful |
an effective strategy for change |
bad, poor | clear, coherent | ~ on
the party''s strategy on
viable | future | long-term,
poverty
~ towards a medium-term, short-term |
comprehensive strategy towards
basic, broad, general, overall
regional developmentTheir overall strategy is quite

PHRASES

a change in strategy
Thegood, but one or two of the details coming year may herald a changecould be improved.

in strategy for major publishers. |
comprehensive | global
a global
the
marketing strategy
grand | adoption/development/formulation draft | dual, two-pronged
The
of a strategy
The money will gogovernment has employed a dual towards the development of newstrategy to achieve these two product and sales strategies.
the
objectives.
radical | high-risk, implementation/pursuit of a risky | defensive | prevention | strategy
Their single-minded
economics-based,
pursuit of this controversial
market-oriented, etc.
a strategy led to their fall fromcustomer-oriented business power.
part of a strategy
Hestrategy
anti-inflationary,
pretended that resigning was part
anti-racist, etc. | survival |
of his long-term career strategy.
defence, military | campaign, election, electoral, government, political | pedagogic, teaching | learning | business, commercial, company, corporate, financial, investment, management/managerial, marketing, product, promotional, recruitment, research, sales | economic, energy, environmental, industrial, legislative, etc.

VERB + STRATEGY

have | design, develop, devise, draw up, formulate, map out, plan, work out
A coherent strategy for getting more people back to work needs to be developed. | The council is drawing up a strategy to meet the needs of the homeless.
explore
It is certainly a strategy worth exploring.
adopt, decide (on), employ, follow, implement, pursue, use
They''re pursuing a strategy of massive retaliation.
outline, propose, set out, unveil
The document sets out the government''s new strategy.
change, revise | focus
The company will now focus its strategy on its core business areas.
abandon

STRATEGY + VERB

be based on sth | be aimed at sth, be designed to
a strategy aimed at reducing therisk of accidents
consist of sth, involve sth | work
Thecompany''s financial strategy is notworking.
fail

STRATEGY + NOUN

development, formulation | review | document, paper

PREP.

in a/the ~
the key idea in

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