strategist

[ strat-i-jist ]

noun

1. an expert in strategy, especially in warfare:

   Julius Caesar was a great military strategist.

strategist

/ ˈstrætɪdʒɪst /

noun

1. a specialist or expert in strategy

Word History and Origins

Origin of strategist¹

First recorded in 1830–40; strateg(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

“I am not a strategist. I am not a party operative,” she said from her Capitol Hill office.

From Los Angeles Times

“People don’t want to be told that crime rates are low when razor blades and hair spray have to be locked up,” Republican strategist Rob Stutzman says.

From Los Angeles Times

“We have an incredibly deep talent of great thinkers and strategists who are going to be able to take that work on.”

From Los Angeles Times

In 2020, the former high-level Republican strategist Stuart Stevens wrote that by embracing Donald Trump, people who created the modern Republican Party had egregiously betrayed the principles it claimed to represent.

From Salon

Mike Madrid, the political strategist, has a brutal assessment of where the Democratic coalition is today.

From BBC

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