divide and conquerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

divide and conquer (三人称単数 現在形 divides かつ conquers, 現在分詞 dividing かつ conquering, 過去形および過去分詞形 divided かつ conquered)

1. To use a combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.
   • 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 62:

     It added that it can't begin pay talks without permission from Transport Scotland, and then cited a TSSA union survey of ScotRail that suggested that most of its members were against strikes, instead preferring job security rather than a pay rise. This prompted the TSSA to accuse ScotRail of trying to divide and conquer.

参考

• divide and rule

名詞

divide and conquer (uncountable)

1. A strategy for achieving political or military control.
2. (computer science) An algorithm design technique that solves a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial.

   The quicksort algorithm is an example of divide and conquer.

ことわざ

divide and conquer

1. In order to rule securely, do not allow alliances between your enemies.