counterstrategy

noun

coun·​ter·​strat·​e·​gy ˌkau̇n-tər-ˈstra-tə-jē 

variants or counter-strategy

plural counterstrategies or counter-strategies

1

: a strategy that counters another strategy

… weighed the possibilities of what his enemy's next move might be before deciding on his next counterstrategy.

—Stormie Filson

2

: a strategy developed to counter something

As individuals began to control information and images in the age of the Internet, political circles have developed a media counterstrategy in response to rapidly changing public opinion.

—Kim Yujin

counterstrategist

ˌkau̇n-tər-ˈstra-tə-jist 

noun

or counter-strategist

plural counterstrategists or counter-strategists

She is not a victim or even a survivor, but a lethal counterattacker, counterstrategist …

—Peter Bradshaw

Examples of counterstrategy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For a while, one male strategy may dominate, and one female counterstrategy dominates as well. —Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2011

That male strategy then rises to dominance, and a corresponding female counterstrategy eventually evolves as well. —Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2011

If the roaches always chose the exact same angle of escape, predators might devise a counterstrategy, Branco points out. —Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023

But the government came up with a brutally clever counterstrategy. —Annia Ciezadlo, Wired, 3 Nov. 2021

Nevertheless, Biden’s bet that Republicans don’t have an effective counterstrategy to his whiteness seems to be valid, even if his larger promise of a new bipartisan era is nowhere near the mark. —Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined at sense 1