Illustration: During a futsal match in a Japanese community gym, a team carries out a coordinated move. One attacker makes an exaggerated run toward the near corner, pulling two defenders after him. His teammate quietly slips into the space this creates beside the far goalpost.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

作さく戦せん

sakusen

strategy, tactics

Example sentences

タイムをとって作戦さくせんを練ねろう。
Let’s take time out to elaborate a strategy.
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同情どうじょうを誘さそう作戦さくせんに出でたみたいだ。
It seems like they resorted to a strategy meant to elicit sympathy.
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「この作戦さくせんはうまくいくだろうか」彼かれはひとりごちた。
He said to himself, "Will this operation result in success?"
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Kanji in 作戦

作make; productionOnサク・サKunつくる・つくり
戦war; battleOnセンKunいくさ・たたかう・おののく

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