strategizev.

1832 [implied in: Monthly Mag. May 535 The Imperial generals were constantly out-strategised. (at out-strategize v.)].

1855 Blanche Dearwood xiv. 137 I strategized to keep you and Blanche apart.

1922 Forbes 23 Dec. 307/3 You cannot have your mind absolutely absorbed in what you are doing and at the same time be worrying or strategizing about your own future activities or ambitions.

1978 New Scientist 21 Sept. 873 Men in dark suits and homburg hats will be commissioning think tanks to strategize.

2007 Keep Faith No. 29. 2/1 To meet and strategise on how to rid the evil menace of gun crime once and for all.

1863 Ladies' Repository July 35/2 It was the opinion of the affectionate ladies who strategised this affair, that Mr. Williams was by no means a sour old bachelor.

1936 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 22 Apr. 5/3 Letters are juggled through half a dozen sets of hands.., before master-minds strategize a reply.

2016 Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 13 Apr. The Appalachia Funders Network..has begun a campaign to strategize ways to turn around the decades-long decline of coal-based economies.

1915 N.Y. Times Current Hist.: European War 2 169/2 Things obviously cannot be in a very bad way when the master strategist can thus take ‘time out’ from strategizing.

1977 Dædalus Fall 134 Four competing hypotheses can be posed for the explanation of kinship rules: detailed genetic control, rational strategizing, complete cultural determinism, and coupled cultural and genetic control.

2006 Chess Dec. 52/2 It may be that your composure will not be conducive to profound strategising or brilliant combinations.