0 a carefully planned way of achieving or dealing with something, often involving a trick:
Her stratagem for dealing with her husband's infidelities was to ignore them.
He was a master of stratagem.
I have seen other martial arts instructors use similar stratagems to dissuade unwanted students.
The user of a stratagem need not be aware of the stratagem-like character of his move.
Attempts to deal with child psychopathology, or any other type of pathology, need to use both clinical and public health stratagems.
Ultimately, the main impact of opting for either of the two feeding stratagems involves changes in population size.
The authors produce evidence of stratagems employed by older people for dealing positively with the transition from living at home to living in a home.
This article provides an examination of the potential of this stratagem, using the case study of 'mentoring' programmes.
Each contender resorts at least on some occasion to the entire gamut of stratagems available.
Nevertheless, however devious, the stratagems chosen by a contender must at least bear the appearance of conformity with the implicit norms of the argumentative game.
