plan of attack

1. 1.

   ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

   “his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons”

   “an attack on inflation”

   “his plan of attack was misguided”

   Synonymsapproachattack

   Broaderconceptualization

   Narroweravenue

Questions about plan of attack

What does plan of attack mean?

plan of attack means "ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation".

What is another word for plan of attack?

Close synonyms include approach, attack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plan of attack a common word?

plan of attack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.